The staff for the upcoming anime adaptation of Kumako Hisama’s Ichijōma Mankitsu Gurashi! (Living Life to the Fullest in a Tiny One-Tatami-Mat-Sized Room) manga released a new teaser trailer ahead of its April release date.
The unveiled characters include Michika Narumi (a first-year student at a different high school from Meiko’s, who works at a cat café in the same building as Hedgehog), Majikarumomorin Gōda (an 18-year-old who ended up living at Hedgehog), Gao (a streamer running the GaoChube channel), and Beruna (Gao’s maid/secret spy).
Toshinori Watanabe, known for his work on Tokyo Ghoul:re, will direct the series at PRA. Fumiya Uehara will design the characters, Yayoi Tateishi will direct the music and MONACA will compose the music.
Additional staff members include:
- Chief animation directors: Fumiya Uehara, Minefumi Harada, Yūki Yabata, Saori Sakiguchi
- Costume design: Fumiya Uehara, Michiko Ōtani
- Art design: Shino Tanaka
- Art director: Minami Nakazato
- Color design: Hiroko Umazaki
- 2D works: Yumeta Company
- Director of photography: Yasushi Kimura
- Editing: Keisuke Yanagi
Kumako Hisama released the manga on Manga Time Kirara in December 2018, and its fourth compiled book volume shipped on July 26. Lastly, here’s an overview of the series via the official website:
The “somewhat sexy manga café comedy” follows Meiko Morita, who moves to Tokyo from the countryside to transfer into an elite girls’ academy. In exchange for “free tuition if she does volunteer work,” she begins living and working at Hedgehog, a manga café that also doubles as a girls’ dormitory. She meets idiosyncratic characters such as Rie Amamiya (a wealthy heiress who serves as Hedgehog’s dormitory keeper/café manager and who is into yuri and boys-love manga), Marika Suzuki (a popular streamer on “MuTube” under the name “Marica Belltree”), and Neo Nakano (a pro gamer who competes in world championships).
