WAKE UP, GIRLS!

Anime premieres October 9 The official website for the Wake Up, Girls! Shin Shō (Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter) television anime series revealed a new promotional video, additional broadcast and streaming information, and additional character designs on Friday. The video previews the opening theme song "7 senses" by the Wake Up, Girls! idol group. The anime will premiere in Japan at night on Monday, October 9 at 2:05 a.m. (effectively Tuesday morning) on TV-TOKYO. It will also air on Sendai Broadcasting and AT-X on the nights of October 10 and 11, respectively. The series will stream on animeteleto, d Anime Store, Anime Hōdai/U-NEXT, and JCOM+KDDI on Friday, October 13 at midnight (effectively Saturday morning). The cast for the newly revealed Wake Up, Girls! Shin Shō character designs, from left to right in the image below, are Daisuke Takahashi as Hajime Shiromoto, Isamu Yūsen as Masaki Asatsu, Hiro Shimono as Kuniyoshi Ōta, and Kenta Matsumoto as Ryō Yazawa. All four

The official website for the Wake Up, Girls! Shin Shō (Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter) television anime series revealed a new key visual on Saturday. The tagline on the below image reads, "Everyone as one. A new chapter starts." The anime will premiere in Japan at night on Monday, October 9 at 2:05 a.m. (effectively Tuesday morning) on TV Tokyo. The show will also air on Sendai Broadcasting and AT-X on the nights of October 10 and 11, respectively. The series will stream on animeteleto, d Anime Store, Anime Hōdai/U-NEXT, and JCOM+KDDI on Friday, October 13 at midnight (effectively Saturday morning). Shin Itagaki (Wake Up, Girls! episode 10 storyboards, Teekyū) is replacing Yutaka Yamamoto as the director of the new anime, and Miyuki Sugawara is replacing Sunao Chikaoka as the character designer, although Chikaoka is still credited for the original character designs. Similarly, Millepensee is replacing Ordet as the main animation studio. Satoru Kousaki and monaca are returnin

Also: Anime-Gataris premiere dates, regions announced Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will simulcast Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter (Wake Up, Girls! Shin Shō) and Time Bokan The Villains Strike Back (Time Bokan: Gyakushū no San-Okunin) this fall. Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter will premiere on October 10 at 2:05 a.m. EDT, and will be available worldwide outside of Asia. Time Bokan The Villains Strike Back will premiere on October 7 at 7:00 a.m. EDT in the the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Denmark, and Central and South America including the Caribbean. Crunchyroll also announced that its simulcast of Anime-Gataris will premiere on October 8 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. It will be available in the United States, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Central and South America Crunchy

Manga launched in July as lead-up to Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter Famitsu's Comic Clear website published the sixth and final chapter for GUNP's Wake Up, Girls! Eternal Senses manga on Friday. The manga will get a compiled volume release on November 15. GUNP launched the manga with supervision by Green Leaves on July 30. The story leads up to the new anime, Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter, which premiered on October 9 and is streaming on Crunchyroll as it airs. In the story of the original anime, Green Leaves Entertainment is a tiny production company on the verge of going out of business in Sendai, the biggest city in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region. The agency once managed the careers of magicians, photo idols, fortune-tellers, and other entertainers, but its last remaining client finally quit. In danger of having zero talent (literally), the president Tange hatches an idea of producing an idol group. On the brash president's orders, the dissatisfied manager Matsuda hea

Run Girls, Run! member Nanami Atsugi joins cast for series premiering in January The official website for the television anime of Hiro Ainana and shri's Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (Death March Kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyōsōkyoku) light novel series revealed the show's theme song artists on Saturday. The Run Girls, Run! group will perform the opening theme song "Slide Ride," and the Wake Up, Girls! group will perform the ending theme song "Suki no Skill." Both groups are the real-life idol groups who also voice roles in the Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter anime. The site also announced that Run Girls, Run! member Nanami Atsugi is joining the show's cast as Martha. The anime stars: Shun Horie (Fastest Finger First's Shiki Koshiyama, The [email protected] SideM's Pierre) as protagonist Satō/Ichirō Suzuki Rie Takahashi (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-'s Emilia, KONOSUBA's Megumin) as Zena Hiyori Kono (background characters in Love Tyrant, Anonymou