With Time Travel Girl: Mari Waka to 8-nin no Kagakusha-tachi debuting today in Japan, the official channel for it has put together the opening sequence for streaming since sometimes that’s an easier way to get people to check out a show rather than digging into the actual episode. The theme song, “Kibou Traveler,” is being performed by the idol group AOP, who you can see to the right with the cover for this particular song CD. Funimation is simulcasting the series.
The project has set Osamu Yamasaki as the director while also working on the series composition. With Kiyonobu Itakura credited as the original creator, Rion Kujo is on board as the assistant director while Mitsutaka Hirota, Yoshiko Nakamura, Sachiko Kubo and Osamu Yamasaki are on board with doing scripting work. Takashi Kobayashi is listed as the chief animation director as well as the character designer.
The cast includes Aki Toyosaki as Mari Hayase, Minako Kotobuki as Waka Mizushiro, Ryuuichi Kijima as Shun Mizushiro, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Eiji Hayase, Tomohiro Tsuboi as Shou Mikage, Haruka Tomatsu as Kei Hayase, Yui Fukuo as Rika Hayase, Kikuko Inoue as Rei Mizushiro, Daiki Yamashita as Fuuta Ichikawa and Ayahi Takagaki as Satsuki Kuroki.
Plot concept: Time Travel Shoujo is based on a 1983 book titled Jishaku to Denki no Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari by Japanese educator Kiyonobu Itakura. It is part of the Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari Zenshuu series which describes the story of various scientific discoveries and inventions throughout history. The 1983 book focuses on discoveries related to magnetism and electricity.
