More staff credits have been revealed for the upcoming Kyoto Animation-produced CITY The Animation. One of them is character designer and chief animation director Tamami Tokuyama, whose art style was featured alongside that of director Taichi Ishidate and CITY mangaka Keiichi Arawi in a New Year’s illustration (the post caption includes the greeting “HAPPY CITY NEW YEAR”).
Aside from Tokuyama, who was character designer and animation director on KyoAni’s 2021 “Souzou-hen” commercial, the other revealed staff members include:
• Color designer: Kana Miyata (Nichijou, Beyond the Boundary)
• Background art director Shiori Yamazaki (“Souzou-hen” background art).
• Compositing director: Hiroki Ueda (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S)
• 3D director: Tatsunori Kase (Sound! Euphonium Season 3 assistant 3D director)
• Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka (Nichijou, MONOGATARI Series OFF & MONSTER Season)
Arawi’s CITY manga ran from 2016 to 2021 in Kodansha’s Morning. Vertical Comics describes the premise as:
From the creator of nichijou, this surreal-slapstick series revolves around a penniless college student, Midori Nagumo, who lives in an ordinary city filled with not-quite-ordinary people. And as this reckless girl runs about, she sets the city in motion.
Midori is in a bit of a bind. She is in debt, and her landlady is trying to shake her down for unpaid rent. Her best friend refuses to loan her cash since she’s wised up to her tricks.
Maybe some bullying would help. Or a bit of petty theft? Neither is sustainable. Maybe getting a job would settle things… But working means less time for fun adventures in the big city…
KyoAni previously produced a TV anime adaptation of Arawi’s Nichijou, on which Ishidate was assistant director.
Source: @city_anime_info
