Tomihiko Morimi, Makoto Ueda, and Yusuke Nakamura! Sequel to "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei" "Shijohan Time Machine Blues" Anime Adaptation Announced! Main staff information will also be revealed!

One of Tomihiko Morimi's early masterpieces, "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei" has many fans in the anime version. It has been announced that its sequel, "Yonjohan Time Machine Blues," will be adapted into an anime with a screenplay by Makoto Ueda, the fourth anime adaptation following "Yonjohan Shinwa Taikei," "Yoru wa Tanashi Arukkeyo Otome," and "Penguin Highway.

The anime is based on the novel "Shijohan Shinwa Daikei" (published by Kadokawa Bunko) by Tomihiko Morimi, which was released in 2005, adapted into a TV anime by Fuji TV's "Noitamina" in 2010, and won the Grand Prize in the Animation Division of the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, the first TV anime to win this prize, and "Yonjohan Shinwa Daikei" by Makoto Ueda, which was adapted into an anime by the same author. The play "Summertime Machine Blues" (Hayakawa Shobo) by Makoto Ueda, which has been adapted to the stage four times since its premiere in 2001 and to a live-action movie in 2005.

⇒The play is written by Tomihiko Morimi, Makoto Ueda, and Yusuke Nakamura! A sequel to the masterpiece "Yotsukihan Mythos Taikei", "Yotsukihan Time Machine Blues" will be released on July 29th! Cover design also revealed!

The two works, which have both created enthusiastic fans in different fields and have long been loved as a milestone in adolescent science fiction, were demonically fused last July to create the novel "Yonjohan Time Machine Blues" by Tomihiko Morimi. The novel, which became a bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies within a month of its release, will now be adapted into an anime by Makoto Ueda, who has written the script for the fourth anime adaptation following "Yonagatami Han Mythology Taikei," "The Night is Short, Walk away Otome," and "Penguin Highway.
Following the novel, the film adaptation will be a passionate collaboration that brings together the masterpieces of these trusted allies.

A bad friend, who lacks the self-awareness of a time traveler, alters the past on his own, and the world is in danger of disappearing. And the secret that the girl he secretly loves is keeping from him. ...... The original novel "Shijohan Time Machine Blues" follows the characters from the popular TV anime "Shijohan Mythos Taikei" as they go right and left in the world of "Summer Time Machine Blues". The anime adaptation is directed by Shingo Natsume ("One Pan Man," "Sonny Boy"), who was a key staff member in the TV anime "Shijoban Shinwa Taikei" and the theater anime "Yoru wa Tanashi Arukeyo Otome" under Masaaki Yuasa, along with Makoto Ueda for the script, Yusuke Nakamura and Tomihiko Morimi for the character designs. The animation will be produced by Science SAR!　It was also announced that the animation will be produced by Science SARU.

Comments from director Shingo Natsume, original story writer Tomihiko Morimi, screenwriter Makoto Ueda, and character designer Yusuke Nakamura have arrived, as well as an illustration from Masaaki Yuasa, director of "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei" in support of the anime adaptation.

The work will begin on August 12, when the only air conditioner in "Shimogamo Yusuisuiso" breaks down, and we hope you will look forward to hearing more about it.

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(Titles omitted in the original.) Director: Shingo Natsume

Director: Shingo Natsume
It has been more than 10 years since the anime broadcast of "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei," but as soon as I started reading "Shijohan Time Machine Blues," the feeling of that time came back to me at once.
I will do my best to share this sense of nostalgia with everyone through the anime adaptation. I will also work even harder so that you can enjoy the new sensation of "Summer Time Machine Blues".

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Born in Aomori Prefecture. After working for J.C.STAFF, Gonzo, Shin-Ei Animation, and as a freelance animator, he made his directorial debut in 2014 with the TV animation "Space☆Dandy". His major directing credits include "One Pan Man" and "Sonny Boy. He was in charge of storyboarding and directing the 6th episode of "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei" and storyboarding the summer part of "Yoru wa Tanshi Arukkeyo Otome".

Original story: Tomihiko Morimi
I was hoping that it would happen, but I thought it would never happen, but I never thought that it would actually happen. As one of the authors, I am very happy. I am looking forward to the summer of Shijohan and the summer of Time Machine.

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Born in Nara Prefecture in 1979. Won the Japan Fantasy Novel Award in 2003 for "Tower of the Sun" and the Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize in 2010 for "Penguin Highway. His major books include "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei", "Arikaten Kazoku", "Yagyo", and "Tropical".

Screenplay (based on the original novel "Shijohan Time Machine Blues"): Makoto Ueda
The hottest and most barren adolescent science fiction tale in human history will be made into an anime by director Natsume, whose name even sounds like summer, drawing on Nakamura-san's passionate characters and Yuasa's hot water-like heat. It is about three layers hotter than the original.
The story of Morimi-san, the author of the original work, and I had a very complicated history up to this point, and the two works, "Yonjohan Shinwa Taikei" and "Summertime Machine Blues," straddled time and space and became like this. The story is just as intricate as the two works, but after we have run through the threads of cause and effect, a cool air-conditioner breeze and a summer sunset await us.

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Born in 1979 in Kyoto. Playwright, director, scriptwriter, and playwright. Representative of Theater Company Europe Kikaku. In 2006, he presented the sequel "Summertime Machine Once More". 17 years later, he won the Kishida Kunio Drama Award for "Come Ketsukarubekaru Shinsekai". He wrote the screenplays for "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei," "Yoru wa Tanashi Arukkeyo Otome," and "Penguin Highway," an anime based on the novel by Tomihiko Morimi.

Character Design: Yusuke Nakamura
It has already been 11 years since the broadcast of the anime "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei. The number of new students has increased, we have pictures of graduates, and the same members from those days are still in the same Yotatamihans, continuing to have a good time. The door is unlocked, so please drop by after a long absence. We don't have an air conditioner as usual, but we have at least chilled rumenes.

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Born in 1978. Born in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture. Illustrator of CD jackets for ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION and Sada Masashi, as well as numerous book covers for "Riddle Solved After Dinner," "The Night is Short, Walk away Otome," music textbooks, and many others. He was in charge of character drafts for the anime "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei" and "Yoru wa Tanashi Awaokeyo Otome. He is also active as a member of the band Sails, appearing on TV and radio, writing essays, and expressing himself in a wide range of other ways.

Comment from Director Masaaki Yuasa's illustration in support of "Shijohan Shinwa Taikei".

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Work information
YOTTAMIHAN TIME MACHINE BLUES

＜Staff＞ Original story: "YOTTAMBIHAN TIME MACHINE BLUES
Original story: "Yonjohan Time Machine Blues" written by Tomihiko Morimi, original story by Makoto Ueda (published by KADOKAWA)
Director：Shingo Natsume
Screenplay : Makoto Ueda (Europe Planning)
Character Planning: Yusuke Nakamura
Animation Production: Science SARU

＜Story

August 12, in the scorching heat of Kyoto's Sakyo Ward.
The only air conditioner in "Shimogamo Yusuisuiso" stopped working. My bad friend Ozu submerged the remote control last night.
While I was discussing the countermeasure with the cool beauty Akashi of the film club "Misogi," a strange-looking male student named Tamura appeared. He said he had come from 25 years in the future on a time machine.
At that moment, "I" had a stroke of genius. Why don't we use this time machine to go back to yesterday and bring back the remote control before it broke? However, Ozu and his colleagues proceeded to alter yesterday and rewrite the past at their own whim. I, sensing the danger of the world's extinction, rush to stop them, but it is already too late!
Will the remote control and daily life be restored safely?
And what will happen to the love between "I" and Akashi-san?
Yesterday" and "today," the world's most careless waste of a time machine begins!