Summer anime series Castle Town Dandelion is moving right along and FUNimation has now brought out their first clip of the series. Naturally, it’s a subtitled clip but it’s one that showcases the animation pretty well and some of the overall tone of the show as it introduces us to the “superpowered royal siblings” of the series.
FUNimation has picked up the North American distribution rights for this series while Hanabee has grabbed the Australian rights and Anime Limited the UK rights.
The show is directed by Noriaki Akitaya with animation production being handled by Production IMS. Reiko Yoshida is handling the series composition and Shinpei Kobayashi is on board as both the character designer and the chief animation director.
The main cast now includes Kana Hanazawa as Akane Sakurada, Ai Kayano as Aoi Sakurada, Ryohei Kimura as Shū Sakurada, Kaori Ishihara as Kanade Sakurada, Ayumu Murase as Haruka Sakurada, Eriko Matsui as Misaki Sakurada, Yui Ogura as Hikari Sakurada, Aina Suzuki as Shiori Sakurada, Shiori Katsuta as Teru Sakurada, Yuka Aisaka as Hana Sato, Saori Hayami as Karen Ayugase, M.A.O. as An Shirogane and Sachika Kisawa as Sachiko Yonezawa.
The original work, which began in 2012, has two volumes to its name so far. The show marks another Manga Time Kirara property making the leap these days. Originally creator Ayumu Kasuga recently served as the original character designer for Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu. They’ve got a few manga properties to their name as well beyond this series.
Plot concept: The everyday lives of the nine super-powered siblings of the royal family are monitored by more than 200 surveillance cameras and broadcast nationwide. The people of the nation who are watching the broadcast will have the ability to elect the next monarch. The story focuses on Akane, the third-oldest sister who can manipulate gravity. She is shy and desperately does not want to be caught on camera.
Poor Akane, pantsued forever by that clip. She’s so adorable, lol. This is a really pleasant and charming show about an interesting family’s siblings interactions. It’s a nice bit of slice of life.
This sounds cool. Will check it out.