The anime adaptation of visual novel Hamidashi Creative will begin its Japanese TV broadcast on October 3 JST (effectively October 4 at 1 AM JST). A teaser trailer and key visual for the show have also been revealed.
The staff of the anime, which has five-minute-long episodes, includes Hisayoshi Hirasawa (Love Flops and Ohmuro-ke movies sound director) as chief director and sound director, Shigeru Fukase (The Dangers in My Heart Episode 11 director) as director and storyboard artist, and Keiya Nakano (Keijo!!!!!!!!, Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue) as character designer.
Reprising their roles from the 2021 console ports of the game are Megumi Toda as Hiyori Izumi, Hotori Asami as Kano Tokiwa, Yuki Tsumugi as Asumi Nishiki, and Miki Horiba as Shio Kamakura. The anime will also feature the character Ameri Ryukan from 2022’s Hamidashi Creative Totsu, voiced by Rie Okamoto instead of the game’s Sara Ayumi.
Hamidashi Creative was first released in Japan for Windows 10 PCs in 2020. PS4 and Nintendo Switch ports of the madosoft-developed title were later released in 2021. Steam, which currently only has a Simplified Chinese version of the game published by Sekai Project, describes the premise as:
It’s the end of June, and the summer seems to locked in place.
Tomohiro Izumi, recognized by himself and those around him as an introvert, is spending another quiet day in his little corner of his classroom… or so he thought.
“Congratulations! You’ve been selected as our next student council president!”
The student council president lottery, held on the spur of the moment by the academy.
Tomohiro manages to be the one randomly selected thanks to his ridiculous luck!
Now the spotlight is suddenly upon him, and as a result, rumors about him begin to circulate. With no way out, Tomohiro relies on his advisor to start gathering allies he can rely on.
But none of the candidates his advisor suggests, from his classmate Kano to his underclassman Asumi, and even his little sister Hiyori, are even coming to the campus!? Amidst all of this chaos, even the former president that no one could ever get ahold of, Shio, shows up…!
Is it fate, or is it a foregone conclusion?
The unheard of and unprecedented battles of the “Random Lottery Student Council President” are about to begin!
Last August saw the end of the Hamidashi Creative anime’s Campfire crowdfunding campaign with 113,984,000 yen (~US$770,995) pledged out of a 10,000,000 yen (~US$67.64 thousand) goal.
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Source: @animadosoft