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Makura no Danshi Pillow Boys DVD to Add Unaired Episode
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Online retailer Makura no Danshi (Pillow Boys) television anime will include an original anime episode that will not air on television. The DVD will also include all 12 television episodes of the anime, the creditless opening, and an audio commentary by the cast and staff. It is slated for release on November 27.
The anime promises a "new and novel 'sleeping side-by-side' experience entirely in the first-person perspective" to "heal tired hearts." It features 12 "Makura no Danshi" (pillow boys), all full of distinctly individual personalities and each catering to viewers who like a certain "type." The boys all live in the same town underneath a starry sky. Each of the "Makura no Danshi" will star his own weekly episode as they "sleep beside you and whisper."
The anime stars:
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Nao Sasayama, the ria-jū [living the real life] boy
Sora Takahata as Eiji Kijinami, the dialect boy
Daisuke Kishio as Yonaga Chigiri, the flower arrangement boy
Shinnosuke Tachibana as Yayoi Chigiri, the flower arrangement boy
Kōsuke Toriumi as Shirusu Mochizuki, the librarian boy
sempai boy
Natsuki Hanae as Merry, the pillow boy
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Kanade Hanamine, the music boy
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Yū Maiki,chūni [adolescent delusion] boy
Ayumu Murase as Hareto Enokawa, the cherub boy
Yūichirō Iida, the stall vender boy (voice actor to be announced)
The character Merry, as voiced by Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun's "Kimi Janakya Dame Mitai") wrote the music and lyrics of the "cheerful pop melody," and arranged the song.
The anime premiered in Japan on Monday on Sun TV, and other stations.
[Via Ota-suke]
