published on 2024-12-11 22:42 EST by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Nippon Animation revealed on Thursday that it is producing a brand-new tv anime spinoff of the Raccoon Rascal (Araiguma Rascal) franchise entitled Araiguma Calcal-dan (Raccoon Calcal Force) that will premiere next year.
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The tagline on the teaser visual checks out, “A half-century after the withstanding work of art, they get here in the world.”
The anime will star Junya Enoki, Taku Yashiro, Kenshō Ono, Yōhei Azakami, and Kenjirō Tsuda, though the anime did not yet expose their functions.
Henry Hirakawa is directing the anime at Nippon Animation. Ayano Yoshioka (Let's Make a Mug Too) is creating the characters. Arisa Okehazama is making up the music. Kisuke Koizumi is the sound director. Kozo Misawa (Yomiuri Television) and Hitomi Hiratsuka (Nippon Animation) are credited as primary manufacturers. Hiroya Tanaka (Yomiuri Television) and Kasumi Dekune (Nippon Animation) are credited as manufacturers.
The Raccoon Rascal/Rascal the Raccoon franchise stems from Nippon Animation's 52-episode 1977 tv anime of the exact same name, itself based upon the unique Rascal, A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North. The series belonged to Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater series of anime adjusting timeless kids's books. Renowned Studio Ghibli co-founder and director Hayao Miyazaki was among the animators for the series.
The franchise influenced the Poka Mori no Rascal anime in 2006, in addition to the Meitantei Rascal anime in 2014.
Sources: Araiguma Calcal-dan anime's site, Comic Natalie
This short article has a follow-up: Araiguma Calcal-dan Television Anime Reveals Teaser Video Narrated by Masako Nozawa (2024-12-12 05:16)
