Yuka Ōshima's Haru to Gen Manga Gets Short TV Anime for January
The adaptation puts Kadokawa's TATESC vertical-scrolling label into a short-form TV slot, a path that until now has mostly carried full-length series.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
A short-format television anime of Yuka Ōshima's Haru to Gen ~70-sai, Hajimete Kosodate~ will premiere next January on tvk. The story follows Gen, a 70-year-old man estranged from his wife and daughter after a divorce, who takes in his three-year-old granddaughter Haru after his daughter's death. Kōdai Satō directs at IMAGICA Infos and Imageworks Studio with Studio Nanahoshi.
Kōdai Satō is directing the adaptation at IMAGICA Infos and Imageworks Studio in collaboration with Studio Nanahoshi. Taeko Miura is handling sound direction, with Maki Takuma on sound effects, bermei.inazawa composing the music, RD on sound production, and Kazuya Takahashi as executive producer.
The manga centers on Gen, a 70-year-old man who was estranged from his wife and daughter after a divorce many years ago. After his daughter's death, he is entrusted with his three-year-old granddaughter Haru, and he faces raising a child for the first time. Ōshima launched the manga on Kadokawa's TATESC Comic vertical-scrolling, full-color webcomic label in December 2022. Kadokawa published its first compiled volume in March 2024.
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