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Muse Asia Simulcasts Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Parallel World Pharmacy, The Devil Is a Part-Timer! Anime
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Muse Asia announced on Facebook that it will stream the following anime for its summer simulcast season:
- The television anime of Satoshi Mizukami's Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (Hoshi no Samidare) manga on July 8 at 11:55 p.m. IST.
- The television anime of Liz Takayama's Isekai Yakkyoku (Parallel World Pharmacy) novel series on July 10 at 8:00 p.m. IST.
- The second anime season based on Satoshi Wagahara's The Devil Is a Part-Timer! light novel series on July 14 at 8:05 p.m. IST.
Alongside India, all three anime will stream in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Pakistan,
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer will premiere on July 8 on MBS and TBS' "Animeism" programming block. The show will also air on BS11, Tochigi TV, and AT-X.
Nobuaki Nakanishi (Koihime Musō, Mahōjin Guru Guru, Kasimasi - Girl Meets Girl) is directing the anime. Original author Mizukami is credited for series composition, alongside Yūichirō Momose (My First Girlfriend is a Gal, Infinite Dendrogram, So I'm a Spider, So What?). NAZ is animating the series with production cooperation by Jumondo. Hajime Hatakeyama (animation director for No Guns Life, Sing "Yesterday" for Me) is the character designer, and Takatsugu Wakabayashi (Majin Bone, PriPri Chii-chan) is composing the music. Other staff members include Minoru Okochi as art director, Ryūsuke Araki as color designer, Toshikazu Kuno as director of photography, and Yuichi Imaizumi as sound director at Sonilude. Rina Koguchi is in charge of editing and Yasuyuki Konno is in charge of sound effects.
Mizukami previously indicated the anime will cover the entire manga "until the end."
Mizukami (Spirit Circle, Planet With) launched the manga in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine in April 2005, and ended it in 2010. JManga once carried the manga, and Seven Seas Entertainment later licensed and released the manga in print in English. Crunchyroll also published the manga digitally. Crunchyroll describes manga's story:
Asamiya Yuuhi was an ordinary college student... until the day a lizard showed up and asked him to help save the world. The next thing he knows, he's been given a ring and special powers, plus an enemy stalking him. However, he's saved in the nick of time by the Girl Next Door, Samidare, who's planning... WHAT kinds of things?! This is an unconventional story that mixes ordinary life with the bizarre and supernatural!
Muse Asia describes Parallel World Pharmacy:
Kanji Yakutani is a pharmaceutical researcher in modern Japan. He woke up one day and found that he had been reborn as Falma de Médicis, a son of a court pharmacist from the respected de Médicis family. Falma was shocked upon seeing the world's medicinal field being dominated by false procedure and drug formulations as well as popular practices like magic and spell that could not be regarded as medical practice at all. Making use of the modern pharmaceutical knowledge that he has, along with the overpowering ability of "Substance Creation & Substance Elimination" which he gained in the parallel world as part of "Divine Arts" only the noble family can use, he faced various illnesses upon him. And so, he produced effective drugs known as "Parallel World Pharmacy" and spread them to the people. Parallel World power x modern pharmacy! The fantasy that changes the future of the medical field in an alternate world and saves people, begins now!
The anime will premiere on the AT-X channel on July 10 at 9:30 p.m., and it will also run on Tokyo MX, Kansai Telecasting Corporation, and BS NTV.
Takayama launched the story on the user-submission site Shōsetsuka ni Narou (Let's Be Novelists). Kadokawa's MF Books imprint published the eighth volume of the light novel series in print with illustrations by keepout on July 21, 2021. Sei Takano has been serializing a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Comic Flapper magazine. The franchise has over 2.3 million copies in circulation.
Muse Asia describes the second season of The Devil Is a Part-Timer!:
In the parallel of Ente Isla, they were the Overlord and the Hero. But in modern-day Tokyo, they are hardworking employees of the modern world under new identities, Sadao Maou and Emi Yusa.
Along with his two confidants at the Overlord's Castle, and a loving high school girl, Chiho, Maou is getting used to life in Japan, while also struggling with the rough economic times. One day, a mysterious little girl appears and the Overlord's Castle is in turmoil!
The Overlord's Castle is tasked with raising a child, while visitors from Ente Isla keep coming in. They also have to work to support the people living in the Overlord's Castle, which is a miserable six-mat room! And so the part-timer Overlord's folksy fantasy unfolds once again in the second season of the anime!
The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX and BS11 channels on July 14 at 11:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EDT), and will also run MBS and AT-X. The anime will also start streaming in Japan exclusively on Disney+ on the same day and time as the broadcast premiere. The anime will have a special program on July 7 where the voice actors will appear to talk about the second season and their memories of recording the voices for the second season.
Daisuke Tsukushi (Isekai Cheat Magician, Girl Friend Note) and Studio 3Hz are replacing Naoto Hosoda and WHITE FOX on the new season. Masahiro Yokotani, Ryosuke Nakanishi, Akemi Tejima (Wish), Jin Aketagawa, and Lantis are returning as the series script supervisor, musical composer, color key artist, and music production company respectively. Character designer Yūdai Iino and chief animation director Yoshihiro Takeda replace Atsushi Ikariya, who served both roles in the first season. Minami Kuribayashi is returning to perform the new season's opening theme song "WITH." She performed the opening theme song "ZERO!!" for the anime's first season.
Wagahara launched the light novels with illustrations by 029 in 2011. Akio Hiiragi's manga adaptation launched in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine in December 2011. Kurone Mishima drew another manga spinoff titled The Devil Is a Part-Timer! High School! in Kadokawa's Dengeki Maoh magazine from 2012 to 2015.
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