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Bikkuri-Men Anime's New Character Video Unveils More Staff, October 5 Debut
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website for Lotte's new anime based on its Bikkuri-Man line of wafer snacks, unveiled the anime's promotional video for its 14 characters, new key visual, more staff , and October 5 premiere on Thursday.
The newly announced staff are:
- Mechanic Designers: Takuya Io
- Art Director: Osamu Tayama
- Color Key Artist: Haruko Nobori
- Compositing Director of Photography: Jun Kubota
- Editing: Rie Matsubara
- Sound Director: Akiko Fujita
- Sound Production: INSPION Edge
The anime will premiere on the BS Asahi on October 6 at 11:00 p.m. JST.
The anime's cast includes:
- Daishi Kajita as Yamato
- Shūta Morishima as Ushiwaka
- Tatsumaru Tachibana as Jack
- Sōma Saitō as Phoenix
- Yōhei Azakami as Hood
- Yuki Sakakihara as Peter
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Maris
- Yūichirō Umehara as Ippontsuri
- Mitsuhiro Ichiki as Shokoshi
- Atsushi Tamaru as Alibaba
- Yui Ogura as Cross
- Yū Kobayashi as Oasis
- Katsuhisa Houki as Khan
- Shinnosuke Tokudome as Takayan
Lotte is credited for the original work, and Shaman King manga creator Hiroyuki Takei is drafting the original characters and mechanic design.
performs the opening theme song "Collection," and the anime's cast including Daishi Kajita, Shūta Morishima, and Tatsumaru Tachibana perform the ending theme song "Seishun☆Whatcha Gonna Do."
The new anime will feature characters who appear on the collectable stickers packaged with the snacks. The story is set in a world where the value of Bikkuri-Man stickers are so high that they have to be transported in a cash transport vehicle. There was also the famous robbery case one year ago, called the "300 million Bikkuri-Man sticker case." One day, a high-school delivery part-timer named Yamato gets involved in a battle over stickers between two competing convenience stores. The Angel Mart owned by the Phoenix store manager is famous for its easy-to-use glitter stickers. The Devil Store across the street also tries to attract Bikkuri-Man fans to their store. Former comrades are divided into allies and foes, and the battle of destiny begins.
The anime's Bikkuri-Man television anime premiered in 1987.
Sources: Bikkuri-Men anime's website, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
