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Ani-One Philippines Adds Uma Musume Season 3, The Faraway Paladin Season 2, Ochibi-san
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 3 features a returning cast.
Kei Oikawa is once again directing the anime at Studio KAI. Yousuke Kabashima is returning to serve as co-character designer, as is co-character designer Tomoko Tsuji. Satoru Fujimoto returns to the staff as chief animation director, along with Manabu Nii. Shingo Nagai and Tetsuya Kobari are handling series composition.
The first 13-episode Uma Musume Pretty Derby television anime season premiered in April 2018. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan. A "BNW no Chikai" (BNW's Oath) anime came bundled with the Uma Musume Pretty Derby television anime's fourth Blu-ray Disc volume in December 2018. The second season of the main Uma Musume Pretty Derby television anime premiered in January 2021.
The Uma Musume Pretty Derby game launched in February 2021 for iOS and Android. The game was originally slated for a release in winter 2018, and was delayed in order to raise the game's quality. The game released on PC via DMM Games in March 2021.
The game's concept begins with Uma Musume (Horse Girls), girls endowed with excellent running capability, and who aim to become top idols and compete in the national sports entertainment show "Twinkle Series." Players take the role of both teacher and trainer for the girls in the Nihon Uma Musume Training Center Gakuen (Japan Horse Girls Training Center Academy) and help them make their debut.
Two years had passed since he left the City of the Dead, and Will was seventeen by count. As a lord, he developed Torch Port, a river port of light, and gradually, the people's activities and smiles returned to the Beast Woods. However, out-of-season flowers bloom profusely, and an abnormality is discovered in the forest. Will and his friends head into the depths of the forest to solve this problem, and receive an ominous prophecy from the king of the forest. 'In the Rust Mountains, the Fire of Black Calamity will occur. The fire will spread, or it will burn everything in this land.' What is the calamity that sleeps in the ruined dwarven city of the Rust Mountains?!
Akira Iwanaga (The Morose Mononokean, Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Arifureta - From Commonplace to World's Strongest second season) is the new director of the anime at OLM and Sunrise Beyond (Children's Playground Entertainment animated the first season). Tatsuya Takahashi (Wise Man's Grandchild, World’s End Harem, Eromanga Sensei) is again overseeing the series scripts. Tatsuya Arai (KING’S RAID: Successors of the Will) is a new character designer alongside returning character designer Koji Haneda. Ryuuichi Takada and Keigo Hoashi from MONACA are returning to compose the music.
Nagi Yanagi performs the opening theme song "Meika" (Fire of Life), and KOTOKO performs ending theme song "Puzzle."
The first anime season premiered in October 2021, and Ani-One Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
In Mametsubu-cho, a town somewhere in the ancient Japanese city of Kamakura, Ochibi-san lives a relaxed, easy life. With his friend Nazeni the dog, Jack the naughty kitten, and Pankui the hungry dog, Ochibi-san's year in Mametsubu-cho is filled with encounters and new discoveries! Flower-viewing in spring, swimming in summer, collecting leaves in fall, and eating yummy food in winter.
Daisuke Onizuka (Evangelion: 2.0, 3.0, 3.0+1.0 CGI director) and Shogo Tsurii (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time CGI lead animator) are directing the anime at Studio Khara. Khara is also supervising and writing the series scripts. Naoki Yoshibe, Taichi Atarashi, Aya Kobayashi, and Doromizu are the line directors. Masaki Ishikawa, Satoshi Yamauchi, and Yō Kyūda are the CG animation directors. Shintarō Wakazuki, Ken Yamauchi, Takashi Suzuki, and Hiromitsu Saitō are credited for 3D character modeling. Satoru Kousaki (Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-) is composing the music.
