Shin-Ei Animation Makes Web Anime for Lotte's Pie No Mi Snacks
A major snack brand is funding an original web anime series through a studio best known for long-running TV properties, marking a direct-to-consumer promotional strategy on YouTube.
Reporting from 1 sources: Anime News Network.
Lotte Chocolate and Shin-Ei Animation are partnering on a new web anime series for the Pie no Mi snack brand. Titled Pie no Mi: Oshi no Mori he Yōkoso, the series will premiere on the Lotte Chocolate YouTube channel on June 4 at midnight Japan Time. The cast includes Yumiko Kobayashi and Rie Hikisaka.
Lotte Chocolate announced a partnership with Shin-Ei Animation for a web anime series based on its Pie no Mi snack brand. The series, Pie no Mi: Oshi no Mori he Yōkoso, will debut on the Lotte Chocolate YouTube channel on June 4 at 12:00 a.m. Japan Time. The cast includes Yumiko Kobayashi, best known as the voice of Shin-chan in Crayon Shin-chan, and Rie Hikisaka, who voiced Cure Yell in Hugtto! Precure. Kazunori Minagawa and Miki Minagawa direct the series and handle key animation, with scripts by Yūko Kakihara and Azusa Serikawa. The web anime adapts a four-panel manga of the same name written by Yuri Fujimaru and illustrated by Aya Matsui, released weekly on the series' website.
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- Anime News Network Interest Shin-Ei Makes Net Anime for Lotte's Chocolate Pie no Mi Snacks