A new series is set for the winter 2019 season with Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan about to arrive in Japan. Crunchyroll has revealed that they’ll be adding it to their winter 2019 lineup with the first episode going live at 1:30 pm today and new episodes weekly at the same time. Availability for it is set pretty solidly with it open to viewers worldwide outside of Asia. .
This comes from the original manga by Yukari Takinami which ran from 2005 to 2014 across eight volumes. For this adaptation they’re going in a different route as each episode will be bringing in a wholly different team, with twelve different directors slotted for it and different actors, character designers, and even animation studios.
The structure for the series currently has this director/actress combination for each episode:
- Gisaburō Sugii and Romi Park
- Ryousuke Takahashi and Suzuko Mimori
- Akitarō Daichi and Haruka Ishida
- Tomomi Mochizuki and Chiemi Chiba
- Shin Misawa and Mika Doi
- Takeo Takahashi and Ami Koshimizu
- Yoshitomo Yonetani and Rumi Shishido
- Osamu Kobayashi and Megumi Kobayashi
- Masayuki Kojima and Mariya Ise
- Akira Shigino and Yuko Tatsumi
- Hiroshi Nagahama and Ai Kobayashi
- Koji Morimoto and Tamurapan
Plot Concept: Ekoda, who works various jobs, explores the city nightlife. While she has a boyfriend, she is more into casual relationships than taking it seriously. She considers popular girls (which she labels “birds of prey”) her natural enemy.
