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Crunchyroll Adds The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash, The Witch and the Beast Anime in India

Crunchyroll began streaming the anime adaptation of Kōsuke Satake's The Witch and the Beast (Majo to Yajū) manga and the television anime of Honobonoru500 and Nama's The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash (Saijaku Tamer wa Gomihiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita.) light novel series in India on Friday.

The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash is also streaming in India on Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel as it airs in Japan.

The Witch and the Beast debuted on TBS and BS11 on January 12. Crunchyroll also held the anime's world premiere screening at Anime NYC on November 17.

Takayuki Hamana (Sorcerous Stabber Orphen) is directing the anime at Yokohama Animation Lab. Hiroya Iijima (Afro Samurai) is designing the characters.

Progressive rock band Soko ni Naru is performing the opening theme song "Soumonka" and Yoshino Nanjō is performing the ending theme song "Hikari no Trill" (Trill of Light).

Satake launched the manga in Kodansha's Young Magazine the 3rd in November 2016. The manga moved to Monthly Young Magazine in 2021. Kodansha published the manga's 10th compiled book volume in August 2022. The manga went on hiatus in January 2023 and has not yet returned. Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English, and released the 10th volume in English in February 2023.

The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash premiered on the Tokyo MX and BS Asahi channels on January 12 and on ABC TV on January 13. The anime had an early screening event for the first three episodes on November 23 at the Science Museum in Tokyo.

Shigeyasu Yamauchi (Boys Over Flowers, Casshern Sins, Dream Eater Merry) is credited as supervising director, while Naoki Horiuchi (episode director for Naruto Shippūden, Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-, The Demon Girl Next Door) is directing the anime at Studio Massket. Katsuhiko Takayama (Looking Up at the Half Moon, ef: a tale of memories, Ga-Rei-Zero) is in charge of series composition. Feng Cheng Hu and Yuki Ikeda are the character designers. Kujira Yumemi (In the Land of Leadale, Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible) is composing the music. Lantis is credited for music production.

Tei performs the anime's ending theme song "because."

Honobonoru500 began serializing The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in November 2018, where it is still ongoing. TO Books began publishing the story in print with illustrations by Nama, beginning with the first volume in November 2019. TO Books released the ninth novel volume on June 10. Seven Seas Entertainment released the fifth novel volume on December 26.

Source: Crunchyroll