The Japanese French Fries Association has launched an official collaboration campaign and new key visual, featuring Elfuda from the upcoming Plus-Sized Elf TV anime series. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan on July 6, 2024.
Elfuda will become a supporting ambassador for the collaboration, while her voice actress, Ayasa Ito, will appear as a judge for the Japanese French Fries Association creators contest event on June 29, 2024. More information about that contest can be found here.
Toshikatsu Tokoro (Soul Link) is directing the anime adaptation, with Katsuyuki Sato (Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!) as character designer, Yuuki Takabayashi (We Love Rice) as series screenwriter, and Cher Watanabe (The Prince of Tennis, Maken-Ki!) as music composer. Elias is handling the animation production for the series.
Meanwhile, the anime’s full voice cast includes:
- • Takahide Ishii as Tomoatsu Naoe
- • Ayasa Ito as Elfuda
- • Rena Hasegawa as Kuroeda
- • Ayaka Fukuhara as Olga
- • Miyu Kubota as Kusahanada
- • Sora Tokui as Meru
- • Madoka Asahina as Raika
- • Aya Uchida as Oku & Akiho Ino
- • Kotori Koiwai as Kobo
- • Yuka Iguchi as Sateru
- • Kaori Maeda as Honeda
- • Aino Shimada as Gonda
- • Mikoi Sasaki as Hitome
The original manga series by Synedoche was first serialized digitally on Wani Books’ Comic Gum website from December 21, 2016 to June 17, 2020. Wani Books’ license for the manga expired in 2020, and the manga entered a short hiatus. Synecdoche then self published the 46th and 47th chapters of the manga on their Twitter account between April 30, 2021 to May 29, 2021. Eight total tankobon volumes were released during its publication.
Akita Shoten acquired the manga’s publication rights and reprinted the series between June 20, 2022 to February 20, 2023. Shortly after, a new sequel manga series titled Plus-Sized Elf: Second Helping! was launched in Dokodemo Young Champion on October 26, 2021, with three tankobon volumes released as of January 2024.
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed both series for release in English for North America.
HIDIVE will stream Plus-Sized Elf as part of its Summer 2024 simulcast, describing the main synopsis as:
Naoe-kun, a massage therapist, is about to head home for the day when he’s saddled with a rather strange patient. This lovely lady has emerald eyes, pointy ears, and grew up in the forest — everything about her screams “elf,” except for one thing: her bodacious body. It turns out she left her world but loves junk food in this one, and now her obsession has caught up with her. Can Naoe-kun help this loveable elf girl lose the weight — and keep it off?