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Uchōten Kazoku Anime's Promo Video Reveals Theme Songs

posted on by Egan Loo
milktub performs opening while fhána performs ending in P.A. Works anime debuting July 7

The official website for P.A. Works' Uchōten Kazoku (Ecstatic Family) anime was updated on Thursday with a new promotional video and a piece of anime visual art. The video previews the anime's theme songs and announces the premiere date.

The musical band milktub (Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts) led by bishōjo game producer bamboo is performing the opening theme song "Uchōten Jinsei" (Ecstatic Life, the second vocal song in the video). The ending theme song ""Que Sera, Sera" (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) is performed by fhána, a group of three male sound producers — Junichi Satō (FLEET), yuxuki waga (s10rw), and kevin mitsunaga (Leggysalad) — and female vocalist towana. It is the first vocal song in the video.

The anime will premiere on July 7 at 10:00 p.m. on the Tokyo MX TV, KBS Kyoto, and Sun TV stations.

The comedy drama is set in Kyoto, where humans, tanuki (shape-shifting raccoon-dogs), and tengu (long-nosed goblins of Japanese folklore) intermingle. In the Shimogamo family of tanuki, Yasaburō lives for whatever strikes his fancy at the moment.

In this July anime, P.A. Works is adapting a novel by Tomihiko Morimi, the author of The Tatami Galaxy (Yojō-Han Shinwa Taikei) novel that previously inspired a 2010 television anime. Kôji Kumeta (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, Joshiraku) is providing the original character designs for Uchōten Kazoku — the first time he has done so for a project not based on one of his manga.

Takahiro Sakurai plays Yasaburō (pictured as the boy and girl in the center of the image), the Shimogamos' third-oldest son who sometimes takes the form of a high school girl. Junichi Suwabe plays Yaichirō (far right), the oldest son who is earnest but often weak-willed at the last moment. Hiroyuki Yoshino plays Yajirō, the second-oldest son who often assumes the shape of a frog and and goes off into seclusion by himself at a well. Mai Nakahara plays Yashirō (far left), the timid youngest son. Kikuko Inoue plays their mother (top left), an obsessed fan of the all-female theater troupe Takarazuka. Rounding out the main cast is Mamiko Noto as the bewitching girl Benten (topmost) who can be found floating carefreely in the skies.

Also in the cast is Ayane Sakura as Kaisei, Bon Ishihara as Sōichirō Shimogamo, and Hideyuki Umezu as Akadama-sensei. 

Masayuki Yoshihara (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode director, Eden of the East assistant director) is making his television series directorial debut with this project. Shôtarô Suga (Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne, episodes of Darker than Black) is in charge of the scripts, and Kousuke Kawazura is adapting Kumeta's designs for animation. Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Love Live! School idol project) is scoring the music.

Images © Tomihiko Morimo, Gentosha/Uchōten Kazoku Production Committee

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