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Muse Asia, Malaysia, Vietnam Streams Shachibato!, Shironeko, Hōkago Teibō Nisshi

Singaporean anime licensing company Muse Asia, as well as its Muse Malaysia and Muse Vietnam services, announced last week that it will stream the Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle!, Shironeko Project: Zero Chronicle, Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater (Hōkago Teibō Nisshi), Argonavis from BanG Dream! Animation, Arte, and Gal & Dino anime.

The company also announced that it will stream the restarted broadcast of the A3! Season Spring & Summer anime. Muse Asia previously streamed the first run of the anime in January.

Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle! is the television anime of the smartphone strategy role-playing game Shachō, Battle no Jikan Desu!.

The anime premiered on Sunday. The isekai (alternate-world) strategy role-playing game is set in a world where dimensional gates suddenly appeared in the skies, opening portals to countless dungeons. The story imagines if the player is a company president who employs adventurers to take on dungeons filled with monsters for the treasures that lie within. The player "recruits" or trains fighters, mages, knights, hunters, rogues, and other classes of employees, and then dispatches the employees into battles.

Hiroki Ikeshita (Harukana Receive episode director) is directing the anime at C2C, with Kenta Ihara (Saga of Tanya the Evil, Cautious Hero) in charge of series composition. Keisuke Watanabe (Yu Yu Hakusho 2018 OVA) is designing the characters. Yukari Hashimoto (Sarazanmai, Penguindrum) is composing the music.

Cast member Azumi Waki is performing the opening theme song "Hurry Love," while the character Yutoria (as voiced by Kana Ichinose) is performing the ending theme song "Oyasumi" (Good Night).

Shironeko Project: Zero Chronicle is the television anime of Colopl's Shironeko Project smartphone game.

The anime will premiere on Monday.

As the anime's title indicates, the anime will adapt the "Zero Chronicle: Hajimari no Tsumi" (The First Sin) prologue event that commemorated the game's third anniversary.

Masato Jinbo (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei!, Chaos;Child) is writing and directing the anime at project No.9 (The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!), and Yousuke Okuda (Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale animation director, Is the order a rabbit?) is designing the characters. Taku Iwasaki (Bungo Stray Dogs) is composing the music. The franchise's Hiroki Asai (Colopl) is serving as executive producer of the anime, and the game's director Ryōji Tsunoda is serving as the anime's supervisor.

Takanori Nishikawa and ASCA are performing the opening theme song "Tenbin -LIbra-." Rei Yasuda is performing the ending theme song "through the dark."

Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater is the television anime adaptation of Yasuyuki Kosaka's Hōkago Teibō Nisshi manga.

The anime will premiere on Tuesday.

Takaharu Okuma (assistant director of Uzamaid!, Himouto! Umaru-chan) is directing the series at Doga Kobo. Fumihiko Shimo (How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?, Anima Yell!) is in charge of series composition, and Katsuhiro Kumagai (Gabriel DropOut, Luck & Logic) is designing the characters. Miki Sakurai (The Quintessential Quintuplets) is composing the music.

The fishing manga's story centers on Hina and her group of three other female high school students. Hina is an indoor-oriented girl who likes crafts and moves to a seaside town to continue with her high school education. She meets upperclassman Kuroiwa as she walks along an embankment and joins the mysterious "Embankment Club." Hina dislikes sea creatures, but she fishes with her fellow club members and eats their catches. She gradually starts to appreciate the appeal of the ocean.

Argonavis from BanG Dream! Animation is the television anime based on the Argonavis all-male band for Bushiroad's BanG Dream! franchise.

The anime will premiere on April 10.

Hiroshi Nishikiori (Azumanga Daioh, A Certain Magical Index, Trinity Seven) is directing the anime at Sanzigen, and Hikaru Miyoshi (Kanshikan Tsunemori Akane) is the character designer for both the anime and the game. Nobuhiro Mōri is writing and supervising both the anime and the game's script, and Ko Nakamura is once again credited for the story concept.

The in-story GYROAXIA band are performing one of the anime's opening theme song "SCATTER," with lyrics by ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D bandleader SHiNNOSUKE, and composition and arrangement by SPYAIR guitarist UZ. Argonavis are performing the other opening theme song "Hoshi ga Hajimaru" (The Stars Begin).

Arte is the television anime adaptation of Kei Ohkubo's manga of the same name.

The anime already premiered on Saturday, and Muse is already streaming the first episode.

Takayuki Hamana (The Prince of Tennis, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation, Library War, Appleseed XIII) is directing the anime at Seven Arcs. Reiko Yoshida (Girls und Panzer, K-ON!, Violet Evergarden) is overseeing the series scripts, Takaaki Suzuki (Strike Witches, Girls und Panzer) is the background researcher, Chieko Miyakawa (Moshidora) is the character designer and chief animation director, and Gorō Itō is composing the music. Maaya Sakamoto is performing the opening theme song "Clover," and Kiyono Yasuno is performing the ending theme song "Hare Moyō" (Sunny Design).

Media Do offers the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story:

16th century Firenze, Italy. One girl, One ARTistic ambition!The birthplace of the renaissance era, where art is thriving. In one small corner of this vast city, one sheltered girl's journey begins. She dreams of becoming an artist, an impossible career for a girl born into a noble family. In those days, art was an exclusively male profession, with woman facing strong discrimination. In spite of these challenges, Arte perseveres with hard work and a positive attitude!

Gal & Dino is the television anime adaptation of Moriko Mori and Cota Tomimura's Gal to Kyōryū manga. The anime already premiered on Saturday, and Muse is already streaming the anime's first episode.

The anime's cast includes Miyuri Shimabukuro as Kaede, Yuko Natsuyoshi as Kaede's friend Yamada, Youki Kudou as Kaede's senior colleague at her part-time job, and Seiichirō Yamashita as Kaede's boyfriend Shōta.

Jun Aoki (Pop Team Epic) is serving as series script supervisor and series director. Tōru Kanegae is the sound director, Yasumasa Koyama is credited for sound effects, Glovision is the sound producer, and Gin (Busted Rose) is composing the music. King Records is the music producer. Kotaro Sudo and Shin Furukawa are the chief producers, and Riko Koarai and Akira Yonezawa are producers. Space Neko Company and Kamikaze Douga are credited for animation production on the anime.

The manga's story begins when a gyaru, or "gal," named Kaede picks up a dinosaur and begins living with it in her room. The dinosaur eats human food, watches TV, and even enjoys being fashionable.

Sources: Muse Asia's Facebook page, Muse Malaysia's Facebook page, Muse Vietnam's Facebook page