As expected, the first episode of the Kemono Friends TV anime surpassed the historic 10 million views on Nico Nico Douga today, in seven months and two weeks since its posting on January 13 of this year. It becomes the first legitimate anime episode to reach the milestone on the largest Japanese video streaming service.

As of now (10:00 am on August 25/JST), it has been viewed 10,078,130 times with 1,778,957 comments. Two weeks ago, it became the most watched anime episode on the service, breaking the previous record marked by the first episode of Is the Order a Rabbit?, which has been viewed over 9,565,000 times in 40 months since April 2014.

Soon after the record was achieved, the TV anime director Tatsuki posted a newly-drawn art of Sand

Cat, who is surprised at the record.

Meanwhile, his original short anime "Keifuku-san," posted on August 15, has also received 100,000

"likes" on Twitter.

"Kemono Friends: Yoshizaki Mine Concept Design Exhibition" dedicated to the 45-year-old artist's design

works for the Kemono Friends franchise opened at Parco Museum on the seventh floor of Ikebukuro Parco's

main building in Tokyo yesterday, August 24. The museum's official Twitter has posted some photos from

the admission-free event.

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準備万端！みんな来てね〜！ pic.twitter.com/heyHSWjZee — 吉崎 観音 (@yosRRX) 2017年8月21日

Source: Nico Nico, Parco Museum official Twitter

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