TV Asahi has uploaded the opening and ending animations of SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary, the newly debuted TV anime adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa‘s (Hyouka) SHOSHIMIN Series mystery novels.
The storyboard artist and director of the aesthetically pretty and lighting-heavy opening is Keisuke Hiroe, whose previous credits include the opening of My Happy Marriage and the music video of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End “Yuusha” opening song. For the ending, which uses real-life locations, the credits list Tao Tajima (Undead Murder Farce ending animation director, RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM VFX director) as video director.
SHOSHIMIN‘s opening song is “Sweet Memory” by Eve, while the ending song is “I Tokenai” by ammo.
SHOSHIMIN premiered on July 6 JST (effectively July 7 at 1:30 AM JST) and is streaming on Crunchyroll and Ani-One Asia. The former describes the premise as:
Kobato decides to become an honest, humble citizen after enduring a bitter experience known as “wisdom work.” He forms a pact with Osanai, his classmate with the same goal, and they plan to enter high school leading quiet lives. But for some reason, inexplicable events and disasters keep happening around them. Will Kobato and Osanai ever manage to live ordinary, peaceful lives?
The SHOSHIMIN Series is published under Tokyo Sogensha Sougen’s Suiri Bunko label and has four main volumes released between 2004 to 2009. A short story compilation was released in 2020, and a new novel was released in April 2024. The first two books have inspired manga adaptations.
The anime earned a mention in my 9 Summer 2024 Anime That Will Hopefully Be Good listicle thanks to its very solid-looking visuals. If you’re wondering what the other eight anime are, you can have a look at the list here.
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Staff
• Director: Mamoru Kanbe (The Perfect Insider, The Promised Neverland)
• Series composer: Toshiya Ono (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2)
• Character designer: Atsushi Saito (Love Live! Superstar!!)
• Color designer: Yuki Akimoto (Summer Time Rendering)
• Art director: Studio ARA’s Akira Ito (Overtake!)
• Compositing director: T2studio’s Tomoyuki Shiokawa (Undead Murder Farce)
• Music composer: Takahiro Obata (The Promised Neverland)
• Animation production: Lapin Track
Cast
• Shuichi Umeda as Jogoro Kobato
• Hina Yomiya as Yuki Osanai
• Makoto Furukawa as Kengo Dojima
Source: tv asahi animation YouTube channel
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