The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Fujio Akatsuka’s Osomatsu-kun began streaming the first promotional video on Thursday. This is the third TV anime series which was announced last July as a commemoration of what would have been Akatsuka’s 80th birthday. It will begin airing in Fall.
New cast and character designs:
- Takahiro Sakurai (Diamond no Ace‘s Miyuki Kazuya, Code Geass‘ Suzaku Kururugi) as Osomatsu, the eldest son
- Yuuichi Nakamura (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun‘s Umetarou Nozaki, Hamatora‘s Ratio) as the second son, Karamatsu
- Kamiya Hiroshi (Bakemonogatari‘s Koyomi Araragi, Kuroko no Basket‘s Akashi Seijuuro) as the third son, Choromatsu
- Jun Fukuyama (Ansatsu Kyoushitsu‘s Koro-sensei, Special A‘s Kei Takishima) as the fourth son, Ichimatsu
Other characters without voice actors yet:
- Juushimatsu
- Todomatsu
- Totoko
- Iyami
- Chibita
- Dayoon/Dayohn
- Dekaban
- Hatahou
Staff:
- Director: Yoichi Fujita (Binbougami ga!, Classicaloid)
- Character Design: Naoyuki Asano (Hana wa Saku: Touhoku ni Saku, Saint☆Onii-san (Movie))
- Art Director: Seiki Tamura (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, Akatsuki no Yona)
- Color Design: Yukiko Kakita (Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia)
- Editing: Kumiko Sakamoto (Yowamushi Pedal Movie)
- Music: Yukari Hashimoto (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Golden Time)
- Music Production: Avex Pictures
- Sound director: Hiromi Kikuta (Haikyuu!!, Wake Up, Girls!)
- Sound production: Rakuonsha (Nichijou, Arakawa Under the Bridge)
- Animation Production: Studio Pierrot (Great Teacher Onizuka, Kingdom)
Osomatsu-kun is a manga series by Fujio Akatsuka which ran in Shounen Sunday from 1962 to 1969. It has been adapted into two different anime series of the same name, the first in 1966, produced by Studio Zero, and the second in 1988, produced by Pierrot and aired across Japan on Fuji Television, the anime satellite television network, Animax, and the South Korean kids channel, Cartoon Network Korea.
This series helped establish Akatsuka’s reputation as a gag comic artist, long before his other popular manga, Tensai Bakabon. Osomatsu-kun has appeared in numerous special issues of Shounen Sunday. Akatsuka has also included several manga adaptations of routines from Charlie Chaplin movies in the series.
In 1964, Akatsuka won the 10th Shogakukan Manga Award for Osomatsu-kun.
In 2015, a third series was announced as a commemoration of what would have been Akatsuka’s 80th birthday. It will begin airing in Fall.
Visual:
Source: Osomatsu-san official website
