We learned in December 2018 that a new anime adaptation is being lined up for the Spring 2019 season in April with Seiji Hayashi’s manga I’m From Japan. The official site has now brought out its first formal promotional video which reveals that it has an April 8th, 2019 debut as part of the Oha-Suta series. The show has Isamu Ueno directing based on the series composition by Masato Naruse and Koji Hashimoto. Character designs are being handled by Hana Nohara and Fumiyuki Uehara.
- Kōtarō Nishiyama as Tokio Abiko, a student who changed schools from Yamagata to Tokyo
- Wataru Hatano as Hide, who is always worried about his hometown in Saitama
- Tesshō Genda as Masurao Kikuchi, a city boy from Tokyo’s Setagaya ward, and the rival of the protagonist Japan
- Reina Ueda as Komachi Yuze, the heroine who worries about Japan
The series from Seiji Hayashi began in September 2018 and has one volume out so far. With the timeframe for this what it is, it’s pretty much an adaptation that was greenlit alongside the manga being approved and working alongside each other.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: Tokio Abiko has left his hometown in Yamagata prefecture to enter school in the great metropolis of Tokyo. On his first day, he encounters one of his classmates, a strange boy called Japan Hinomoto. Tokio soon realizes that Japan is the master of a very peculiar martial art – Todofu-ken: the Metro-erritorial Pre-fist-ure Style! With each of the 47 styles themed after a prefecture of Japan, enjoy a hilarious and unique tour of the country!
