Eight short stories from Tatsuki Fujimoto of Chainsaw Man, Look Back, and Fire Punch fame have received the anime treatment, and their adaptations are coming on November 8 JST to Prime Video as a single collection titled Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 (the numbers refer to the age range at which Fujimoto created these short stories).
You can get a taste of the anime anthology in the trailer below. A key visual was also revealed.
As for the production teams and cast involved with these eight stories, here’s the list:
“A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin’ in the Schoolyard”
Staff
• Director and script: Seishiro Nagaya
• Character designer: Moaang
• Animation production: ZEXCS
Cast
• Kensho Ono
• Shion Sakurai
• Kazuki Ura
• Kimiko Saito
• Mitsuo Iwata
“Sasaki Stopped a Bullet”
Staff
• Director: Nobukage Kimura
• Script: Teruko Utsumi
• Character designer: Naho Kozono
• Animation production: Lapin Track
Cast
• Toshiki Kumagai
• Chika Anzai
• Yoichi Okano
“Love is Blind”
Staff
• Director: Nobuyuki Takeuchi
• Script: Teruko Utsumi
• Character designer: Tomoko Mori
• Animation production: Lapin Track
Cast
• Shun Horie
• Shion Wakayama
• Toshiyuki Morikawa
• Takahiro Yamamoto
• Junichi Suwabe
• Mamiko Noto
“Shikaku”
Staff
• Director and script: Naoya Ando
• Character designer: MYOUN
• Animation production: GRAPH77
Cast
• Kana Hanazawa
• Tomokazu Sugita
“Mermaid Rhapsody”
Staff
• Director: Tetsuaki Watanabe
• Script: Tatsuo Kobayashi
• Character designer: Nozomi Shimazaki
• Animation production: 100studio
Cast
• Chiaki Kikuta
• Eri Yukimura
“Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome”
Staff
• Director and script: Kazuaki Terasawa
• Character designer: Kohei Tokuoka
• Animation Production: Studio Kafka
Cast
• Yuki Sakakihara
• Maki Kawase
• Seiichiro Yamashita
“Nayuta of the Prophecy”
Staff
• Director and script: Tetsuaki Watanabe
• Character designer: Hisashi Higashijima
• Animation production: 100studio
Cast
• Hitomi Sasaki
• Yohei Matsuoka
“Sisters”
Staff
• Director: Shu Honma
• Script: Yoko Yonaiyama
• Character designer: Haruka Sagawa
• Animation Production: P.A.WORKS
Cast
• Runa Nakashima
• Tomo Nakai
• Tomohiko Imai
As mentioned in the trailer’s video description, the original short stories are available in the short story collections Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 17-21 and Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 22-26.
Source: Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 website
