A new original anime series is in the works that has now been announced for a January 2024 debut with Delusional Monthly Magazine. The original work is credited to Ichigo Umatami and it has Chizuru Miyawaki as the direct and original character designer. Akane Hirota is handling the character design adaptation while Hiroko Kanasugi is working on the series composition. OLM Team Yoshioka is handling the animation production.
With the show getting underway with its January 11th, 2024 premiere date, the production has now brought out the first preview for the sixth episode due out on February 15th, 2024.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Takahide Ishii as Taro J Suzuki
- Kazutomi Yamamoto as Jiro Tanaka
- Yusuke Shirai as Saburo
- Shunichi Toki as Goro Sato
- Rie Kugimiya as Catherine Sue
- Tomokazu Sugita as Edward Chi
- Anan Furuta as Perch
- Yūki Inoue as Noin
- Chiwa Saito as Nancy
- Tomomichi Nishimura as Rock
The opening theme song puts the main cast of four together as a unit called Delusional Monthly Magazine Editorial Department as they perform in character. The ending sequence is going to be the song “SCIENCE” as performed by Shunichi Toki.
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Plot Concept: Delusional Monthly Magazine is set in Most City in an unknown country in a small publishing house that prints a monthly magazine about the most outlandish of things. Everything changes when the staff of the magazine, editor-in-chief Taro, his assistant Jiro and dog Saburo, meet with scientist Goro Sato…
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[Source: CR]