Manga Entertainment UK/Animatsu picked up the Kiniro Mosaic property recently and are moving fairly quickly with a release for it. The distributor has now set a March 20th, 2017 release date for it where it’ll have the original Japanese language with English subtitles only, mirroring the US release. Where it looks like it won’t mirror it is in how it’s being authored as the twelve episodes are being spread across two discs whereas the US release had all twelve on one disc.
The first series, produced by Studio Gokumi with Showgate, was directed by Motoki Tanaka and was animated at Studio Gokumi with Yuniko Ayana handling the scripting duties. Kazuyuki Ueda worked the character design.
The first season has been licensed and released by Sentai Filmworks. You can read our review here.
Plot concept: The story begins with Oomiya Shinobu, a 15-year-old, seemingly pure Japanese girl who actually did a homestay in Great Britain. Even after coming back to Japan, she still misses her time overseas. One day, an airmail letter arrives from Alice, the girl in Shinobu’s host family in Great Britain. The letter reads: Shinobu, I’m coming to Japan! The Japanese/British girls’ mixed comedy follows the lives of Shinobu, Alice, and other girls from both Japan and Great Britain.
