The folks at Key announced the Prima Doll property back in the fall of 2020 and they’ve expanded the mixed media project out to the anime side as well. With the series seeing a July 8th, 2022 debut, the official site is doing some new promotional work for the show. The latest update is the first preview of the eleventh episode that’s due out on September 16th, 2022.
Sentai Filmworks has revealed their pickup of the property with a home video release later on while confirming that it will be an exclusive on HIDIVE as part of the summer season. They’ll be streaming it worldwide outside of Asia.
The series has Tensho directing it with Toya Akano and Kai handling the scripts and series composition. Akane Yano is adapting the character designs by Na-Ga, Fuzichoco, Yui Hara, En Morikura, and lack while Bibury Animation Studios is handling the production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Azumi Waki as Haizakura
- Tomori Kusunoki as Karasuba
- Miyu Tomita as Gekka
- Yuki Nakashima as Hо̄kiboshi
- Akari Kitō as Retzel
- Ayumu Murase as Nagi Tōma
- Misaki Kuno as Chiyo
- Ayaka Suwa as Otome Okunomiya
The opening theme song is “Tin Toy Melody” by Chat Noir.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: Café “Kuronekotei” boasts an unusual roster of employees. A group of automata, or autonomous mechanical dolls, serve their patrons with a smile, but they weren’t always so suited to domestic life. Just a few years prior, automata served as weapons in the great war, fulfilling the bloody purpose for which they were created. Now that the war has ended, these machines with human hearts search for their place in an unfamiliar, peaceful world — and their search begins at the Kuronekotei café.
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