Toho Animation’s official YouTube channel began streaming new commercials for the ongoing TV anime of SankakuHead’s (Uzura Convenience, Arakure Neverland) manga, Himouto! Umaru-chan, on Sunday.
The new commercials are for the OP song “Kakushin-teki Metamaruphose!” by Aimi Tanaka, ED song “Hidamari Days” by the VA unit Sisters (Aimi Tanaka, Akari Kageyama, Haruka Shiraishi, Yurina Furukawa), DVD/Blu-ray 1st volume to be released on September 16, and the upcoming special event on December 13. Five VAs from the anime: Tanaka, Kageyama, Shiraishi, Furukawa, and Kenji Nojima are scheduled to join the December event.
CM for the OP song “Kakushin-teki Metamaruphose!” by Aimi Tanaka, scheduled for release on August 19:
CD jacket illustration
CM for the ED song “Hidamari Days” by the VA unit Sisters (Aimi Tanaka, Akari Kageyama, Haruka Shiraishi, Yurina Furukawa), scheduled for release on August 19:
CD jacket illustration
CM for the Blu-ray/DVD 1st volume, scheduled for release on September 19:
Himouto! Umaru-chan Blu-ray/DVD volume 1 cover illustration:
CM for the special event on December 13:
Anime visual:
Himouto! Umaru-chan is a Japanese manga series by Sankaku Head. It began serialization in Shueisha’s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 2013. It has been collected in six tankōbon volumes. An alternative version was serialized for two chapters in Shueisha’s monthly magazine Miracle Jump in 2012. An anime television series adaptation by Doga Kobo began airing in Japan from July 8, 2015. The “himouto” in the title is a pormanteau of himono (干物?, “dried fish”) and imouto (妹?, “little sister”).
Himouto! Umaru-chan synopsis from Haruhichan:
Umaru is a renowned beautiful 16-year-old girl in town, living with her elder brother Taihei. She acts a perfect sister with a kind heart, intelligence and popularity, who everybody admires. So who would believe how true Umaru is at home? Sleeping, gaming, watching TV, eating junk food, drinking cola… that’s almost all she does at home, leaving all the housework to her brother.
Her camouflage is so perfect that when one of her classmates visits her home by surprise and witnesses “true Umaru,” she pretends as if she is Umaru’s younger sister. Taihei is always swayed by Umaru’s gap between ostensible face and spoiled life, but he cannot hate his comical and somehow lovable cute little sister!
