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Mr. Osomatsu Season 4's Teaser Unveils July Premiere
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website for the Mr. Osomatsu anime posted the "super" teaser promotional video and visual, returning cast and staff, and the July premiere of its fourth season, on Monday.
Takahiro Sakurai, Yūichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Kamiya, Jun Fukuyama, Daisuke Ono, and Miyu Irino all reprise their roles as the Osomatsu sextuplets.
Yoshinori Odaka, the episode director for the anime's first and third seasons and the director of the Osomatsu-san ~Hipipo-Zoku to Kagayaku Kajitsu~ film, is directing the fourth season at Pierrot Films. Shū Matsubara is again in charge of series scripts, and Eiji Abiko is again designing the characters.
The Mr. Osomatsu television anime was inspired by Fujio Akatsuka's original Osomatsu-kun manga and "high tension comedy" TV anime, which centers on the Matsuno household with six naughty and mischievous sons (who are sextuplets). All of the sextuplets, including the eldest Osomatsu, are all in love with the same girl, Totoko. The original Osomatsu-kun series followed the family when the sons were 10 years old. Mr. Osomatsu re-imagines the original manga and TV anime with the sextuplets as adults.
The Mr. Osomatsu anime has three anime seasons that premiered in 2015, 2017, and 2020. The Eiga no Osomatsu-san film debuted in 2019. The franchise also includes various anime shorts and a live-action film.
The Mr. Osomatsu anime franchise announced in June 2021 that it will get two new anime films with limited theater screenings in Japan in 2022 and 2023. The first new film, Osomatsu-san ~Hipipo-Zoku to Kagayaku Kajitsu~, premiered in Japan in July 2022. The second film, Osomatsu-san: Tamashii no Takoyaki Party to Densetsu no Otomari-kai (Mr. Osomatsu: The Soul's Takoyaki Party and the Legendary Sleepover Party) premiered in Japan in July 2023.
Matsuinu, a line of dog character products inspired by the Mr. Osomatsu anime, itself inspired a series of anime shorts that debuted in October 2023.
The anime streamed a four-episode "ultra-short anime" exclusive to the Mr. Osomatsu fan club, to commemorate its fifth anniversary.
Sources: Mr. Osomatsu anime's website, Comic Natalie