The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Akira Konno’s Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo manga has confirmed the anime’s April 9 premiere at 10:30 p.m. JST on AT-X. The anime will also air on Tokyo MX, MBS, BS-TBS, U-NEXT and Anime Hōdai, and Crunchyroll will stream the anime outside Japan with the title Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble?.
A new promotional video for Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? was also released, revealing that Galileo Galilei performs the opening theme song “Komorebi (Sunlight Through the Trees).” Manami Kakudō performs the ending theme song “Hororo Shōryō (Warble Ramble).”
The cast includes:
- Ayumu Murase as Arata Kōda
- Yuria Kōzuki as Kujima
- Yōhei Azakami as Suguru Kouda
- Ryōko Shiraishi as Miyoshi Kouda
- Hirofumi Nojima as Masaomi Kouda
Noriyuki Nomata directs the anime at Studio Hibari. Shinichiro Kimura is the series director. Yasunori Yamada is overseeing the series scripts, Sakurako Mitsuhashi is the character designer, and Manami Kakudō is the music composer.
Konno launched the Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo manga in Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine in September 2021, and the series ran until April 2024. Shogakukan published the manga’s first compiled book volume in April 2022. The fifth and final volume released in May 2024.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga series, via MangaDex:
The fall of his first year in middle school, Arata Kouda meets a strange bird-like creature named Kujima. Seeing he’s hungry, Arata invites him into his home to eat. There he encounters Arata’s older brother, a shut-in studying for his next entrance exam. After a tense meeting Kujima decides to start freeloading at their house during the winter until the warm spring comes.
