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Kuso Miso Technique Gay Manga's Shin Yaranai ka Anime Reveals More Staff Before Crowdfunding Starts

The official website for Shin Yaranai ka, the first "official" anime of Junichi Yamakawa's Kuso Miso Technique manga, announced more staff for the original video anime before launching its crowdfunding campaign on Thursday. The anime's official Twitter account also revealed the below character design sheets for the anime:

Sumito Sasaki is the animation director, and Yi Zhang (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure episode animation director) serves as the character designer and chief animation director. Gekiatsu-kun is the chief animator. Studio Leo and Anime Tokyo, LLC are producing the anime. Bungaku Itō and Cyzo are credited for collaborating on the original work. As previously announced, Studio Kingyoiro's Pierre Itō (Kenda Master Ken, World, Before You End) is directing the planned anime. "Ikansoku" is writing the script, and Taiten Kawakami is collaborating on the scenario.

The crowdfunding campaign for 8 million yen (about $60,000) will launch on the Soreosu site on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. (6:00 a.m. EDT). The rewards for sponsors in this campaign include art, the digital script and storyboards, Abe's face mask, an online preview screening, signed posters, a listing in the project's website and onscreen credits, the anime itself in MP4 format and Blu-ray Discs (with a bonus disc exclusive to crowdfunding sponsors), the story's iconic blue coverall outfit (with the anime's logo), and an invitation to the preview screening party in Matsumoto City. Sponsors at the 3 million yen (about US$22,000) "King of Yaranai ka" tier will receive a life-size light-up Abe character panel and a voice-acting role in the anime.

The staff aims to start animation production in May, record dialogue this summer, complete the anime for release this fall, hold an online preview screening and send sponsor rewards in October or November, and stream the Kuso Miso Technique part of the anime on Niconico and YouTube this Christmas.

The story begins with Masaki Michishita, an ordinary prep school student who is rushing to the bathroom in a park one day. Despite his rush, he spots Takakazu Abe, an exceedingly handsome auto mechanic sitting on a bench. The two exchange looks, and after Abe utters "Yaranai ka" (Shall we do it?), the two begin their encounter. The anime will expand upon the one-shot manga and incorporate elements from Yamakawa's other works, as well as its own unique story elements.

Anime Tokyo is producing the medium-length original video anime as an all-ages title.

"Yoshirō Sasaki" is voicing Takakazu Abe in the planned anime, and Sorate ("who just graduated high school") is voicing Masaki Michishita. (Pierre Itō had personally discovered the manga on the online Futaba Channel forum during his junior high school years, and had then created and posted an unofficial live-action fan video on YouTube under the pseudonym "Yoshirō Sasaki.")

Yamakawa published the original one-shot manga in the second issue of BaraComi, a special manga spinoff from the gay men's magazine Barazoku, in 1987. In the early 2000s, the manga's dialogue line "Yaranai ka" became an Internet meme.

Sources: Shin Yaranai ka anime's website and Twitter account via Hachima Kikō