The anime adaptation of a manga property Ueno-san wa Bukiyo is coming up with a January 6th, 2019 debut and we saw Sentai Filmworks pick up the rights to it at the end of last year. Now, HIDIVE has formally scheduled the show as a part of their winter lineup with the first episode arriving today at 11:45 am ET for members. It’ll be in its original Japanese language with English subtitles for the 15-minute running time.
Tomohiro Yamanashi serves as the director and worked on the series composition for it. Ayanao Owada is on for the character designs and serving as the animation director with Lesprit handling the animation production with Gathering cooperating.
The Japanese cast includes Yū Serizawa as Ueno, Aimi Tanaka as Tanaka, Akari Kageyama as Yamashita, Nichika Omori as Mizuna Tanaka, Miku Itō as Yomogi Tanaka, Shiori Izawa as Tamon, Haruka Tomatsu as Kitanaga, Rina Satou as Nishihara, Ayana Taketatsu as Minamine, and Yuka Iguchi as Unogawa.
Shiori Izawa will be performing the opening theme song “Hirameki Heartbeat”, aka “Flash Heartbeat” for the show.
The manga comes from tugeneko and began in 2015 and has four volumes out so far.
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Plot Concept: The story focuses on Ueno, a stoic and strong-willed genius junior high school girl who is the president of her school’s science club, and who has already invented many handy gadgets for her own use. However, she is clumsy and awkward when it comes to romance.
