ABC
Animation announced
on Tuesday the creation of its own music division and record label. To kick off
this new stage, they revealed that they will be in charge of producing
the opening and closing theme of the Shūkan Ranobe
Anime program, a project that adapts original light novels in vertical
anime format for smartphones.
Musical
themes and recognized voices
Voice
actress Chihaya Yoshitake will perform the opening theme titled "Hajimari no
Aizu" (The Sign of the Beginning), marking her debut as a solo
artist. Meanwhile, Ayaka Nanase along with Takayuki
"Kojiro" Sasaki will be in charge of the closing
track, "Gunjō to Mikan no Kanata" (Overseas and
Beyond the Incomplete).
An
innovative format for anime
The
project's mini-anime, which airs as YouTube Shorts, will also be
adapted to a landscape format for television broadcast under the Shūkan
Ranobe Anime program, which will begin on Friday, July 12 on
the Animazing!! block of ABC TV, TV Asahi and
other affiliates.
The four
original works that make up the project
Shōshin Time Leap (Salto Temporal del Desamor)
Author: Nigozyu
Character Design: Tanu
Summary: Miri, after being rejected by Takashi at Christmas,
travels six months into the past with the help of a diary. Since then, he has
been performing time jumps to change his destiny and understand Takashi's
rejection.
Femme
Fatale Ikusei Keikaku (Project to Create a Femme Fatale)
Author: Natsu Hyūga
Character Design: Kamoku Okeno
Summary: Hiroki, a popular and chubby student, decides to become an
irresistible woman to avenge his cousin Tsukino, who was left by her
ex-boyfriend.
Jack the
Reaper
Author: Tappei Nagatsuki
Character Design: Minori Chigusa
Summary: A man with no memories wakes up in an interrogation room.
After being killed, he returns to that same place again and again, trapped in a
cycle of death and mystery.
Reborn
as Marie Antoinette, I'll Give it My All to Avoid the Guillotine
Author: Shōko Amano
Character Design: Takuya Fujima
Summary: A modern otaku reincarnates as Marie Antoinette and,
determined to avoid the guillotine, turns King Louis XVI and his brothers into
an idol group to win over the people.
