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Hero TV to Air Tanaka-kun is Always Listless Anime in September
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Philippine television channel HERO TV began airing a commercial on Monday that revealed that it will air the Tanaka-kun is Always Listless television anime in September. It also teased that it will air the live-action film adaptation of Momoko Kōda's Heroine Shikkaku (Failure as a Heroine) shōjo manga.
Tanaka-kun is Always Listless premiered in Japan in April 2016.
Shinya Kawamo (.hack//GIFT, Kokoro Connect, Non Non Biyori) directed the anime at SILVER LINK, and Akemi Omode (Getbackers, Kyo kara Maoh!, Tales of the Abyss) oversaw the scripts. Haruko Iizuka (Umi Monogatari, Ōkami-san & Her Seven Companions, Little Busters!) designed the characters for animation, while Kusanagi provided the art direction. Hiromi Mizutani (Sunday Without God, Non Non Biyori, Shomin Sample) composed the music. Unlimited tone performed the anime's opening theme song "Utata ne Sunshine" (Snooze Sunshine), and singer/songwriter CooRie performed the anime's ending theme song "BON-BON."
The youth comedy manga follows the ever-listless Tanaka and his taciturn classmate Ohta, who can't leave Tanaka alone.
Nozomi Uda launched the original manga series on the Gangan Online website in 2013, and Square Enix published the manga's eighth compiled volume on April 22.
The Heroine Shikkaku romantic comedy centers around a high school girl named Hatori Matsuzaki who firmly believes that she has to marry her childhood friend, Rita Terasaka, someday. Kōsuke Hiromitsu, the most popular boy in school, completes the love triangle. Actress Mirei Kiritani (live-action Arakawa Under the Bridge, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Jigoku Sensei Nube) stars as Hatori. Kento Yamazaki plays Rita, and Kentarō Sakaguchi plays Hiromitsu.
The film opened in Japan in September 2015, and earned 233,825,500 yen (about US$1.95 million) and sold 196,496 tickets on 268 screens in its opening weekend. Tsutomu Hanabusa (High School Debut, Handsome Suit, Sadako 3D) directed the film. The original manga ran in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine from 2010 to 2013, and Shueisha published 10 compiled book volumes.
[Via Anime Pilipinas, AnimePH]
