A avian-like humanoid crashes a high school student’s household in the intriguing anime adaptation of Akira Konno’s Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo manga—Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble?. Final Weapon has everything you need to know about Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble?, including the weekly schedule, release dates and timing for new episodes, and much more about the new anime.
The story of Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? focuses on Arata Kouda, a first-year high school student who meets Kujima, a peculiar creature. A simple act of kindness leads to Kujima having a stay at the Kouda household. Kujima decides to stay until the spring, and an unexpected stay turns into a story that brings forth some wholesome bonds in the family.
Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New episodes of Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? will release on Thursdays at 6:30 a.m. PT / 9:30 a.m. ET on Crunchyroll. Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? will be streaming with English subs and an English dub, and there will be 12 episodes in total.
Here are the release dates and schedule for Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? (subject to change):
- Episode 1 – April 9 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – April 16 – OUT NOW
- Episode 3 – April 23 – OUT NOW
- Episode 4 – April 30 – OUT NOW
- Episode 5 – May 7 – OUT NOW
- Episode 6 – May 14 – OUT NOW
- Episode 7 – May 21 – OUT NOW
- Episode 8 – May 28 – OUT NOW
- Episode 9 – June 4 – OUT NOW
- Episode 10 – June 11 – OUT NOW
- Episode 11 – June 18
- Episode 12 – June 25
New episodes of Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 6:30 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 7:30 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 8:30 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 9:30 a.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 1:30 p.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
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 Kouda
- 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.
Where Can I Watch Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble??
Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and India. In Japan, the anime is airing on the AT-X, Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS-TBS channels, along with U-NEXT and Anime Hōdai.
What is Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? About?
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.
