{"id":91198,"date":"2024-07-06T11:09:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=91198"},"modified":"2024-07-06T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:11:25","slug":"shoshimins-op-ed-animations-have-been-released-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/07\/06\/shoshimins-op-ed-animations-have-been-released-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOSHIMIN&#8217;s OP, ED Animations Have Been Released on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">TV Asahi has uploaded the opening and ending animations of <em>SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary<\/em>, the newly debuted TV anime adaptation of <strong>Honobu Yonezawa<\/strong>&#8216;s (<em>Hyouka<\/em>) <em>SHOSHIMIN Series&nbsp;<\/em>mystery novels.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The storyboard artist and director of the aesthetically pretty and lighting-heavy opening is <strong>Keisuke Hiroe<\/strong>, whose previous credits include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=22snn05aEyQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening of <em>My Happy Marriage<\/em> <\/a>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/09\/29\/yoasobi-drops-gorgeous-music-video-for-frieren-beyond-journeys-end-opening-song-yuusha\/\">music video of <em>Frieren: Beyond Journey\u2019s End<\/em> \u201cYuusha\u201d<\/a> opening song. For the ending, which uses real-life locations, the credits list <strong>Tao Tajima<\/strong> (<em>Undead Murder Farce<\/em> ending animation director, <em>RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM<\/em> VFX director) as video director.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c\u5c0f\u5e02\u6c11\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u300d\u30ce\u30f3\u30af\u30ec\u30b8\u30c3\u30c8OP\u6620\u50cf\uff5cEve\u300c\u30b9\u30a4\u30fc\u30c8\u30e1\u30e2\u30ea\u30fc\u300d\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kk6meRqr-o4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c\u5c0f\u5e02\u6c11\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u300d\u30ce\u30f3\u30af\u30ec\u30b8\u30c3\u30c8ED\u6620\u50cf\uff5cammo\u300c\u610f\u89e3\u3051\u306a\u3044\u300d\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UxoqXIo82Xo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>SHOSHIMIN<\/em>&#8216;s opening song is &#8220;Sweet Memory&#8221; by<strong> Eve<\/strong>, while the ending song is &#8220;I Tokenai&#8221; by <strong>ammo<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>SHOSHIMIN&nbsp;<\/em>premiered on July 6 JST (effectively July 7 at 1:30 AM JST) and is streaming on Crunchyroll and Ani-One Asia. The former describes the premise as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size: 12pt\">Kobato decides to become an honest, humble citizen after enduring a bitter experience known as \u201cwisdom work.\u201d He forms a pact with Osanai, his classmate with the same goal, and they plan to enter high school leading quiet lives. But for some reason, inexplicable events and disasters keep happening around them. Will Kobato and Osanai ever manage to live ordinary, peaceful lives?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"message_ccca67 cozyMessage__9f4fd groupStart__7b93c wrapper_a62503 cozy_f5c119 zalgo__39311\" role=\"article\" data-list-item-id=\"chat-messages___chat-messages-1248177866517119039-1248177866517119039\" aria-labelledby=\"message-username-1248177866517119039 uid_1 message-content-1248177866517119039 uid_2 message-timestamp-1248177866517119039\">\n<div class=\"contents_d3ae0d\">\n<div id=\"message-content-1248177866517119039\" class=\"markup_a7e664 messageContent_abea64\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The\u00a0<em>SHOSHIMIN Series<\/em> is published under Tokyo Sogensha Sougen\u2019s Suiri Bunko label and has four main volumes released between 2004 to 2009. A short story compilation was released in 2020, and a new novel was released in April 2024. The first two books have inspired manga adaptations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The anime earned a mention in my <em>9 Summer 2024 Anime That Will Hopefully Be Good<\/em> listicle thanks to its very solid-looking visuals. If you&#8217;re wondering what the other eight anime are, you can have a look at the list <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/06\/30\/9-summer-2024-anime-that-will-hopefully-be-good\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>&nbsp;for more anime and anime-adjacent news stories, plus updates on our user-voted anime chart rankings.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director:&nbsp;<strong>Mamoru Kanbe<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>The Perfect Insider<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Promised Neverland<\/em>)&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Series composer:&nbsp;<strong>Toshiya Ono<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation<\/em>&nbsp;Season 2)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer:&nbsp;<strong>Atsushi Saito<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Love Live! Superstar!!<\/em>)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Color designer:&nbsp;<strong>Yuki Akimoto<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Summer Time Rendering<\/em>)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Art director: Studio ARA\u2019s<strong>&nbsp;Akira Ito<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Overtake!<\/em>)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Compositing director: T2studio\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Tomoyuki Shiokawa<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Undead Murder Farce<\/em>)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Music composer:&nbsp;<strong>Takahiro Obata<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>The Promised Neverland<\/em>)&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation production:&nbsp;<strong>Lapin Track<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Shuichi Umeda<\/b>&nbsp;as Jogoro Kobato<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Hina Yomiya&nbsp;<\/b>as Yuki Osanai<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<b>Makoto Furukawa<\/b>&nbsp;as Kengo Dojima<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> tv asahi animation YouTube channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV Asahi has uploaded the opening and ending animations of SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary, the newly debuted TV anime adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa&#8216;s (Hyouka) SHOSHIMIN Series&nbsp;mystery novels. 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