A Niconico Live streaming program for the fourth anniversary of The [email protected] SideM game revealed on Monday that a television anime adaptation of Sumeragi and Bandai Namco Entertainment's The [email protected] SideM Wake Atte Mini! spinoff manga will premiere on October 9. The anime shorts will air on Tokyo MX and BS11 in Japan on Tuesdays. The anime's official website revealed a promotional video and key visuals on Monday.

The anime's cast members are reprising their roles from The [email protected] SideM game and previous anime in The [email protected] franchise.

Mankyū ([email protected], The [email protected] Cinderella Girls Gekijō) is directing and is in charge of series composition for the shorts at Zero-G. Sao Tamado ([email protected], Mobile Suit Gundam-san) is designing the characters based on Sumeragi's original designs. Kazuhiko Yokota (animation director for Battery the Animation, Grand Blue) is chief animation director.

Other staff members include:

Art Setting: Hiroyuki Ochi

Art Director: Yuuya Kusumoto

Color Design: Haruko Nobori

Director of Photography: Kosuke Tanaka

Music: EFFY

Music Production: Lantis

Music Director: Takatoshi Hamano

Editing: Shun Tokuda

The [email protected] SideM's three idol types — Physical, Mental, and Intelligent — will each perform an ending theme song for the anime. CDs for each group with the ending theme song and background music will ship on November 14, December 5, and December 19, respectively.

In addition, Sumeragi will draw The [email protected] SideM Wake Atte Mini! Returns manga that will debut in the November issue of Kadokawa's Dengeki Maoh magazine on September 27. To mark the anime's announcement, The [email protected] SideM Live On [email protected] app will also add a new "Mini" feature.

Sumeragi launched the The [email protected] SideM Wake Atte Mini! manga in 2016 and ended it in January. Kadokawa published the series' compiled book volume in March. The manga features the characters from The [email protected] SideM franchise in super-deformed form.

The main The [email protected] SideM game launched in July 2014, and is available for iOS and Android devices, as well as on Mobage and ChromeApps. The game has more than 1 million downloads. Like other The [email protected] games, SideM is built on the concept of "idols you can produce." The app focuses on the male idols at the agency 315 Production (pronounced "Saikō Production" or "Ultimate Production"). Another app, The [email protected] SideM Live On [email protected] , launched in 2017.

Katō ended The [email protected] SideM Dramatic Stage manga in Dengeki Maoh in June 2017. Kadokawa shipped the manga's third and final compiled book volume in August. Katō then launched The [email protected] SideM Struggle Heart manga in Dengeki Maoh on October 27.

The game's 13-episode anime adaptation premiered on October 7. A prologue special about the three Jupiter idol unit members aired on September 30. Crunchyroll streamed both anime as they aired.

Sources: The [email protected] SideM Wake Atte Mini! anime's website, Frontier Works' YouTube channel, Animate Times



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