The original character designs by the illustrator Nakamura Yusuke for the anime "Yojouhan Time Machine Blues" (Premiere and distribution start in 2022) have been released. At the same time, the additional casts, Satou Setsuji and Honda Chikara (Europe Kikaku) have been announced. "Yojouhan Time Machine Blues" is a novel that is born from the collaboration between the TV anime "The Tatami Galaxy" by the author Morimi Tomohiko that was broadcasted on Fuji TV's "Noitamina" in 2010 and the stage play "Summer Time Machine Blues" by the playwright Ueda Makoto that has gotten a live-action film in 2005. The story starts when Ozu, a bad friend of "I", the protagonist, drown the remote control of the only air conditioner of the student dorm on a certain midsummer day. When they are coming up with the plan to survive the remaining summer days with Akashi-san, the cool beauty of the filming circle "Misogi", a sloppily-dressed student, Tamura comes from 25 years in the future via the time traveling machine. Then, "I" plan to use that time machine to go back to the past to bring back the remote control before it got damaged... Along with the original character design in the "Reiwa Edition" by Nakamura Yusuke in the delicate touch, the additional cast has been announced. Following "The Tatami Galaxy", Aijima Senpai is played by Satou Setsuji while the new character from the future, Tamura-kun is played by Honda Chikara (Europe Kikaku), who played the same character in the stage play and live-action film "Summer Time Machine Blues". "Yojouhan Time Machine Blues" will premiere in 2022 and distribution will be available on "Disney+". Also, the re-runs of "The Tatami Galaxy" have been confirmed on Fuji TV's "Noitamina" slot in April 2022. ＜Below are the full comments＞ Satou Setsuji, voice of Aijima Senpai The sequel of "The Tatami Galaxy" is finally here! It's so nostalgic~ Also, Asanuma Shintaro-kun will speak in a fast manner just like a machine gun. I believe there will be romance development in this series. (Haha) The world setting is my favorite and quite nostalgic as I used to stay in the very old student dorm as my university was in Kansai. Moreover, since it involved science fiction elements, which is the time machine, I believe that it will be quite entertaining! I already looking forward to it now! That's right, let's go to Kyoto! After the situation has calmed down! Honda Chikara (Europe Kikaku), voice of Tamura-kun I had played Tamura-kun in both the stage play and film of "Summer Time Machine Blues" and even in the sequel "Summer Time Machine Blues One More", I was quite surprised that I can play him again in "Yojouhan Time Machine Blues"! I read it with a weird feeling as Tamura-kun come to the present from the future on top of the sensation that he arrived at Morimi-san's work from Ueda-kun's work. As I don't have much experience as a voice actor, it would be good if my acting gives you a different feeling. (C) Morimi Tomohiko, Kadokawa/ "Yojouhan Time Machine Blues" Production Committee

Disney+, Disney's official video streaming service, is now exclusively streaming the nationally theatrical animated film "Tatami Time Machine Blues." The streaming of the streaming-only episodes, which can only be seen on Disney+, has begun. "Tatami Time Machine Blues" is a collaboration between "The Tatami Galaxy," one of novelist Morimi Tomihiko's early masterpieces that has many fans in the anime, and "Summer Time Machine Blues," a stage work by Ueda Makoto, who wrote the screenplay for the anime of Morimi's works including "The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl " and "Penguin Highway," as well as the novel. It was scorching hot in Kyoto on August 12. While "I" and Akashi-san are discussing how to deal with the fact that the only AC at "Shimogamo Yusuiso" in Sakyo Ward has stopped working, a stranger, Tamura, a male student who says he came from 25 years in the future on a time machine, appears. This leads to the start of the world's most unintentional waste of a time machine between "yesterday" and "today." In the sixth episode, which is a "Disney+" streaming-only episode, viewers can enjoy a different world from the time-traveling-related storyline that unfolded in the main story. Before the streaming, director Natsume Shingo said, "This story is set in one of the parallel worlds that follow The Tatami Galaxy, the railroad research circle "Kyofuku Electric Railway Study Group". This episode is also the episode that leads up to Tatami Time Machine Blues, where the tatami-colored campus life turns a little more colorful," he revealed. It describes my first contact with "Ozu" and an incident in the "Kyofuku Electric Railway Study Group," which "I" joined as a shiny new college freshman. "Please allow me to spend a few moments here to tell you about my nemesis and ally, the despicable man Ozu." The parallel world that begins with "I"'s words, which are interspersed with scenes and tidbits familiar to fans of the original, should be enjoyed to the fullest along with the final episode. (C) 2022 Morimi Tomihiko, Ueda Makoto, KADOKAWA/"Tatami Time Machine Blues" Production Committee