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2-Minute Cheese Napolitan Anime Special Streamed

GMO Internet's Chō Akūkan Bōheki Cheese Napolitan (Super Hyperspace Bulwark Cheese Napolitan), the company's full 3D CG two-minute anime special featuring its two female mascots, began streaming on Saturday. The video features the image song "Up To You" by Maaya Uchida and Sumire Uesaka. UZA wrote the lyrics, and Tomokazu Tashiro composed the song. Tashiro and Kōta Takahashi arranged the song.

The anime stars:

Maaya Uchida (Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live's Wakana, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!'s Rikka) as Anzu Mikumo (surname literally translates to “beautiful cloud”), the official mascot character for GMO Internet's GMO Application Cloud cloud server service.

Sumire Uesaka (Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!'s Sora, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!'s Dekomori) as Konoha Mikumo, the official mascot character for the company's VPS service "ConoHa byGMO."

Studio Khara (Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo animation production, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet in-between animation) animated the special, Tomokazu Tashiro composed the music. Tashiro is known for his composition for the The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime series' "Hare Hare Yukai" ending theme, and also for the The IDOLM@STER 2 song, "The world is all one!!" Shizu, the illustrator and character designer for the Kagerō Days -in a daze- novel adaptation of the original Kagerō Days videos, illustrated the cover for the DVD.

GMO distributed the special on 15,000 free DVDs (5,000 each day) at the Comic Market 85 event at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center from December 29 to 31.