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Kantoku Designs Characters For Original Short Anime Series One Room Premiering in January
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Entertainment label SMIRAL (Anime De Training! Ex, Makura no Danshi) opened a website on Friday to announce that it is producing an original anime series of shorts titled One Room that will premiere in Japan in January. A spinoff anime series titled Room Mate: One Room side M will then premiere in April.
Kantoku (The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat., Garakowa -Restore the World- original character designer) is designing the original characters for One Room, and Yasuhiro Okuda (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha) is adapting those character designs for animation. Typhoon Graphics (animation production assistance for Digimon Adventure tri. films) is animating the series. Eiji Mano is in charge of the original story, and Aose Shimoi is writing the scripts. Takashi Sakuma is the executive producer, Hiroki Matsumoto of Atelier PLATZ is the art director, Chieko Hibi is in charge of color design, Fumi Namba is the composite director, and Shun Tokuda is editing the series.
One Room will air on Tokyo MX and will stream on Niconico. The series will tell "three stories raised in your (one) room."
Room Mate: One Room side M will feature "another story" featuring male characters. Hidari (Sasami-san@Ganbaranai, Fractale, Santa Company) is designing the characters for the series.
Source: MoCa News
