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Muse India Licenses Our Rainy Protocol, 'You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story' Anime
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Our Rainy Protocol will premiere in October on TV Asahi's NUMAnimation programming block.
The youth drama centers on the world of e-sports. Shun Tokinoya is a second-hear high school student who started working at the e-sports café FOX ONE after his father's accidental death. However, it comes to light that FOX ONE is in a considerable amount of debt. In order to repay the debt, Shun and his friends enter the "Xaxxerion Championship" tournament to win the tournament's prize money.
Team KITSUNE is credited with the original work. Yasutaka Yamamoto (Servant × Service, Nekopara, Noblesse, Medalist) is the chief director and Daishi Kato (episode director for BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- , JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean) is the director at animation studio Quad. Kotsukotsu is credited with the original story draft, and Katsuhiko Takayama (Aldnoah.Zero, The Future Diary) and Yamamoto are overseeing the series scripts. Booota is the original character designer, and Kanna Hirayama is adapting those designs for animation. Satoru Kousaki and MONACA are composing the music.
Hideaki Oba (Love of Kill, Pandalian, Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist) is directing the anime at ENGI. Hiroko Fukuda (Taisho Otome Fairy Tale, Gekijōban Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san) is overseeing the series scripts, and Yōsuke Itō (Holmes of Kyoto, Hensuki, The Detective Is Already Dead) is designing the characters for animation based on magako's original illustrations. Kei Haneoka (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) is composing the music. Pony Canyon is producing the music. Takeshi Takadera (Yowamushi Pedal) is the sound director.
The novels center on the relationship between Ryūto Kashima, a gloomy social outcast, and Runa Shirakawa, a popular girl at school. Their relationship begins when Ryūto has to ask Runa out as part of losing a game, and she ends up going out with him after saying "Well, I'm free right now, after all." They have completely different social circles, and completely different hobbies, but as they hang out with each other, they begin recognizing and even accepting those differences as something to bond over.
Nagaoka launched the light novel series under Kadokawa's Fantasia Bunko label with the first novel volume in September 2020, with illustrations by magako.
Carpaccio Noyama launched a manga adaptation of the novels on Square Enix's Gangan Online website in February 2022. Manga UP! Global is releasing the manga in English under the title You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story.
Source: Muse India's Instagram page (link 2, link 3)
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