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Tatami Time Machine Blues Anime Slated for Disney+ in U.S. on November 9
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Yojō-Han Time Machine Blues) novel to its U.S. program listings. The anime's complete first season will start streaming on November 9.
The anime streaming the anime in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia Singapore and Thailand in September.
The anime series have a total of five episodes, and an original sixth episode streamed exclusively on Disney+. The sixth episode features an original story not in the novel, and footage that is not included in the anime's theatrical compilation film version.
streamed the anime globally, and the theatrical compilation film version started 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.
Yūsuke Nakamura also returned 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: Press release, Disney+ website
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