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POPTV Streaming Service Adds How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? Anime With Filipino Dub
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Streaming service POPTV announced last week that it will add the How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? anime with a Filipino dub on November 11.
How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? is the television anime of Yabako Sandrovich and MAAM's Dumbbell Nan-Kilo Moteru? manga. The anime premiered in July 2019.
The "body-building comedy" centers around Hibiki, a high school girl who loves eating, and Akemi, the beautiful and charismatic student council president who has a muscle fetish. The staff describes the story:
"Hibiki … Are you fat again?"A friend's cruel words which cut like a knife into the heart of Hibiki Sakura, a high school girl who loves to eat. Hibiki decided to go on a diet to be absolutely thin by summer vacation, but she cannot keep exercising right alone. That's when Hibiki found herself before a training gym! Upon joining the gym, Hibiki meets her beautiful and charismatic student council president Akemi Sōryūin and steps into the intense yet enjoyable world of weight-training.
Mitsue Yamazaki (Tada Never Falls in Love, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun) directed the anime at Doga Kobo and Fumihiko Shimo (New Game!) was in charge of the series scripts. Ai Kikuchi (New Game!) designed the characters. Silver Man Gym presented the project.
Fairouz and Ishikawa sang the opening theme song "Onegai Muscle" as their characters Hibiki Sakura and Naruzō Machio, respectively. Ishikawa also sang the ending theme song "Macho A Name?" as his character.
