Yūsanchi! anime sets 5 October debut with new cast
Yūsanchi! from Yū-hachi adapts three manga into a short anime airing from 5 October, with Fanworks revealing its cast and promo video.
Yūsanchi! from Yū-hachi is bringing three delightfully odd manga worlds together for a short-form anime, and Fanworks has now put a date on the madness: 5 October. The omnibus series will mix tiny everyday stories, a mysterious fish and a tanuki with a rather questionable rental arrangement.
The details come from Anime News Network’s report on Fanworks’ announcement. This is a compact TV anime built around three manga by Yū-hachi, not a feature-length adaptation pretending that a handful of short segments need a three-hour runtime.
What's actually going on
According to the report, the anime debuts on 5 October inside Fuji TV’s Nonstop! programme on Mondays and Fridays at 11 a.m. It will also air in Kansai TV’s Shunkan Live Toretate! programme on Mondays and Fridays at 3:30 p.m.
Episodes will stream online through FOD, TVer and Fuji TV’s anime YouTube channel after broadcast. Fanworks also revealed a main promotional video, key visual and the principal cast: Chiaki as Dekaihachi, Hina Kawata as Jirai-chan, Fūka Izumi as Tanuki, Ryōta Suzuki as Onii-san, Kenta Sasa as Tenchō and Tomo Miyazawa as the narrator.
The omnibus adapts Dekai Hachi, Miseban no Spis and Ah, Tanuki wa Mō Dame Desu. Rarecho directs and scripts the latter two segments, while Gaku Kinoshita directs and scripts the Dekai Hachi material. Fanworks is animating the series.
Three strange little worlds
The three premises are wonderfully different. Dekai Hachi follows a 40-centimetre-tall creature and his daily life alongside humans. Miseban no Spis begins when a mysterious fish suddenly appears. Ah, Tanuki wa Mō Dame Desu centres on a tanuki rented out to different people, which sounds like the sort of business model that should trigger several government investigations.
That variety is the point. Instead of stretching one manga’s premise thinly across a season, the anime can jump between tones and characters while keeping each segment short enough to land its joke or odd little observation. The weekday broadcast slots also make it an easy piece of animated nonsense to dip into between larger shows.
Our opinion
This looks like a promising small-scale anime for viewers who enjoy their comedy slightly left of centre. The three-source format gives Yūsanchi! from Yū-hachi a useful rhythm, and the 5 October launch leaves enough room for its oddball charm to cut through the crowded autumn schedule. Put it on the curious-watch list: it may be brief, but brief is often exactly what a show about a rented tanuki needs.