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Tatami Time Machine Blues Anime Reveals New Trailer, Preview Screening
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The official website for the television Asian Kung-Fu Generation.
Cast Shingo Natsume, will be in attendance at the preview screening.
Advance tickets for the theatrical showing will go on sale on Friday, with a clear file as a bonus for physical ticket buyers and virtual wallpapers with a digital purchase.
The anime will Disney+ in Japan on September 14 at 4:00 p.m. JST. The anime will stream weekly on Wednesdays for a total of five episodes.
An original sixth episode will stream on October 12, and it will feature an original story not in the novel. It will be exclusive to Disney+ and will feature footage that will not be in the anime's theatrical compilation film version.
stream the new anime globally. The anime's theatrical compilation film version will start its limited three-week run on September 30.
Tatami Time Machine Blues is a sequel to Morimi's earlier The Tatami Galaxy (Makoto Ueda's Summer Time Machine Blues stage play. Morimi wrote the novel, and Ueda, Morimi's friend, is credited with the original concept. The sequel novel combines elements of the stage play's story with the characters from Morimi's novel. Nakamura returned to illustrate the cover.
In the sequel novel's story, The Tatami Galaxy protagonist's trouble-making friend Ozu gets the student apartments' only air conditioner remote control wet, breaking it on a certain midsummer day. The students wonder what to do about the situation for the remainder of the summer and make a plan with Akashi. An unstylish male student from 25 years in the future arrives in a time machine. The protagonist travels back in time to try to retrieve the remote control before it is broken.
Most of the cast are returning for the sequel anime, including Shintarō Asanuma as the protagonist "I" (Watashi), Keiji Fujiwara.
Chikara Honda is similarly reprising the Tamura-kun role from the Summer Time Machine Blues stage play and subsequent live-action film.
Shingo Natsume (Yūsuke Nakamura also returns as character designer.
Masaaki Yuasa in April 2010.
The Night is Young, Walk on Girl novel, which inspired a 2017 anime film also directed by Masaaki Yuasa off a screenplay by Ueda.
Sources: Tatami Time Machine Blues anime's website, Comic Natalie
