Hurray! Animates Wondering Mate Shorts for Meta Taxi
Hurray!, one of the studios on A Few Moments of Cheers, is planning and animating Wondering Mate, an original short anime that premieres on Meta Taxi's YouTube channel on December 16.
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Why it matters
For Hurray!, a studio known on the film side for A Few Moments of Cheers, this is a short-form commission from a YouTube channel built on a virtual taxi format, and its first original short anime.
Key Facts
- Hurray! is planning and animating Wondering Mate, an original short anime for Meta Taxi's YouTube channel.
- Wondering Mate premieres on December 16 and runs 12 episodes of three minutes each.
- Yuno Nakahara plays Aco and Nobuhiko Okamoto plays Bit.
- Inu Hirayama of the comedy duo TentenHanten writes the script.
- Kodansha's Shunsuke Sagawa and DNP's Saki Nakao are producing.
The story is set in another world where avatars from discontinued apps live. Yuno Nakahara plays Aco, a high school girl avatar who dreams of becoming human, and Nobuhiko Okamoto plays Bit, an avatar who wants nothing to do with becoming human.
The run is 12 episodes of three minutes each. Meta Taxi is a YouTube channel whose talk sessions are set inside a virtual taxi roaming Tokyo at night, and Wondering Mate is its first original short anime.
Inu Hirayama, a member of the comedy sketch duo TentenHanten, writes the script, which the source describes as his anime scripting debut. Kodansha's Shunsuke Sagawa and DNP's Saki Nakao are producing. A teaser with English subtitles is streaming on the channel ahead of the December 16 premiere.
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Sources
- Anime News Network A Few Moments of Cheers' Studio Hurray! Animates Wondering Mate Net Shorts