Anime Limited has announced that they’ve picked up the home video rights for Aoharu x Kinkajou. And they’ve also picked up simulcast rights as well and will be working with Viewster for that part of it where it’ll be available to audiences in the UK & Ireland. A premiere date and time will be coming soon for that. It’s set to debut in Japan on July 2nd, 2015.
The series is set to be directed by Hideaki Nakano based on scripts by Kenji Konuta. Character designs are coming from Junko Yamanaka, who is also serving as chief animation director. The animation is being produced at Brains Base.
The previously announced cast included Mikako Komatsu as Hotaru Tachibana, Tomoaki Maeno as Masamune Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tohru Yukimura, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Nagamasa Midori, Eri Kitamura as Ichi Akabane, Ryohei Kimura as Takatora Fujimoto and Yui Horie as Kanae Yajima.
The property is NAOE’s first work, which started off as a one-shot that appeared in Gangan Online back in the summer of 2011 and then spent some time being reworked into an ongoing series, which kicked off in the summer of 2012 in GFantasy magazine. It has six volumes out so far, of which you can see the covers for below.
Plot concept: Matsuoka and Yukki were close friends who dreamed of becoming professional soccer players together. But their hopes were dashed when Yukki moved away due to family issues. Years pass and Matsuoka is now a host while Yukki has become a hentai mangaka. Matsuoka meets Yukki again while the latter is fleeing from his editor, and is soon introduced to his childhood friend’s latest obsession…
