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Crane Game Girls Short TV Anime Announced With April Premiere

The Kyotoma (JK Meshi!) animation studio announced on Thursday that it is animating an original anime titled Bishōjo Yūgi Unit Crane Geeru (Beautiful Girl Play Unit Crane Game Girls). The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX on April 6 at 10:00 p.m., and later on BS Fuji on April 11 at 1:00 a.m. Each anime part of the episode will be five minutes long, and each live-action segment will be 16 minutes long and will feature the cast playing arcade crane games.

The cast includes:

• Natsuko Hara as Mirai
• Sora Tokui as Ayaka
• Riko Sasaki as Kyōko
• Sarara Yashima as Sayo
• Aina Suzuki as Newscaster

The staff includes:

• Director: Tommy Hino
• Scenario: Uematsu Inoue
• Character Design: Fuyuri
• Backgrounds: Shizuka Nakayama
• Animation: Hiroshi Namiki, Naoko Tokumaru
• Sound Effects: Wolli
• Supervision: Dr. Nakajima
• Production: Kyōfū Tomato (Kyotoma)

The story centers on three girls: Mirai, Ayaka, and Kyōko. The three are the only ones who can save Earth from being destroyed by a group of asteroids. They are hired by Sayo, the representative of a shadowy organization, and the organization starts work on turning them into an idol group. While the trio are more than prepared to be idols, they are instead taken into an arcade.

Source: Animate.tv