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Ani-One Adds English Subtitles for How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?, Uzamaid! Anime

Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel announced on Monday that it has added English subtitles to its stream of the How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? and Uzamaid! anime.

How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? is the television anime of Yabako Sandrovich and MAAM's Dumbbell Nan-Kilo Moteru? manga. The anime premiered last July.

The "body-building comedy" centers around Hibiki, a high school girl who loves eating, and Akemi, the beautiful and charismatic student council president who has a muscle fetish. The staff describes the story:

"Hibiki … Are you fat again?"

A friend's cruel words which cut like a knife into the heart of Hibiki Sakura, a high school girl who loves to eat. Hibiki decided to go on a diet to be absolutely thin by summer vacation, but she cannot keep exercising right alone. That's when Hibiki found herself before a training gym! Upon joining the gym, Hibiki meets her beautiful and charismatic student council president Akemi Sōryūin and steps into the intense yet enjoyable world of weight-training.

Mitsue Yamazaki (Tada Never Falls in Love, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun) directed the anime at Doga Kobo and Fumihiko Shimo (New Game!) was in charge of the series scripts. Ai Kikuchi (New Game!) designed the characters. Silver Man Gym presented the project.

Fairouz and Ishikawa sang the opening theme song "Onegai Muscle" as their characters Hibiki Sakura and Naruzō Machio, respectively. Ishikawa also sang the ending theme song "Macho A Name?" as his character.

Uzamaid! adapts Kanko Nakamura's Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru! manga. The anime centers on Misha, a little girl who lost her mother at an early age, and now lives with her father. Her father employs a maid named Tsubame, who was a former Self-Defense Force official, and is also a lolicon.

The anime premiered in October 2018.

Masahiko Ohta and Takashi Aoshima — the director and series head writer, respectively, of Himouto! Umaruchan, Gabriel DropOut, and Mitsudomoe — are reuniting in the same roles for the new anime at Doga Kobo (Himouto! Umaruchan, Himōto! Umaru-chan R, Gabriel DropOut). Jun Yamazaki (Three Leaves, Three Colors) is designing the characters. Haruka Shiraishi and Manami Numakura are performing both the opening and ending theme songs as their respective characters.

Source: Ani-One Asia's Facebook page