The staff of the upcoming anime adaptation of Atamoto’s Tanuki to Kitsune (Raccoon Dog and Fox) manga revealed a new key visual and announced that the anime will premiere on October 4.
Tommy Hino is directing the anime at Akatsuki Media Studio, and Rika Kihara is handling the series scripts.
Atamoto started publishing the Tanuki to Kitsune manga on X (formerly Twitter), and Frontier Works releases the manga in print. The franchise has already inspired a wide variety of merchandise, as well as stamps. The manga’s 10 volumes and three picture book volumes have more than 1.3 million copies in circulation.
Lastly, here’s a description of the series via Anime News Network:
These are the daily lives of a raccoon dog who is not quite with it and a mischievous fox who likes to tease the raccoon dog. The two are close friends who live together on a mountain. Their other friends include a wolf, a bear, a rabbit, and birds.
