“Sonny Boy" is an original work that will be the focus of TV anime titles that will start airing in July. The manga artist and illustrator Eguchi Hisashi is in charge of the original character designs. Since Eguchi is in charge of the original character designs for the first time in 18 years, this work had already become a hot topic before the broadcast began. Eguchi Hisashi is a big name for the generation of 80's and 90's manga and subculture lovers. He is said to be the best at drawing beautiful girls in Japan, and I'm sure many of his fans were delighted to be able to see his skills in an anime. Let's take a look back at the greatness of Eguchi-san, his career, and the tremendous impact he has had on the manga and anime industry, and the world in general. Gaining attention as a gag manga artist Eguchi Hisashi made his debut as a manga artist in 1977. With "Susume Pirates (Sail Onwards! Pirates)," which began in the same year, he quickly gained a huge following as a gag manga artist. “Susume!! Pirates" was a work that depicted the members of a fictional professional baseball team, but it was a groundbreaking work that opened up the genre of baseball gag manga, whereas most baseball manga had a serious, sports-oriented style. With a style that incorporated a wide range of topics, from extreme parodies to current events, his works had a great impact on society, including the creation of the once popular word "burikko”. Later, in 1981, he began his greatest masterpiece as a manga artist, "Stop! Hibari-kun!”, in which he created the character Hibari-kun, who looks like beautiful woman but is actually a man, a forerunner of today's cross dressing men, and fully demonstrated his sense of modeling beautiful girls. Perhaps Eguchi-san’s most significant achievement as a manga artist is that he updated the design of beautiful young female characters in manga. It is no exaggeration to say that he is the one who set the standard for today's manga, where it is commonplace to see beautiful girls competing with each other. While he is famous for his beautiful young female designs, he also draws great-looking male characters, and his sense of style is demonstrated in the manga "Age". In "Age", he is also famous for creating designs that make women's nostrils look cute. The characters in "Sonny Boy" all have neatly drawn nostrils, demonstrating Eguchi-san's sense of style to the fullest. Eguchi-san's manga has gained a reputation not only for its interesting content, but also for the fact that the frontispiece and other drawings are extremely well done as illustrations. This trend became evident in the later stages of the "Susume!! Pirates" series and "Stop!! Hibari-kun!", where he drew very sophisticated pictures every week. Dominating the world as an illustrator Eguchi-san began to work as an illustrator, making the most of the sophisticated and pop-like designs that he had been displaying in his frontispiece. He has demonstrated his sense of style in many fields, including magazine covers, illustrations, corporate illustrations, and CG jackets. He is said to be the best illustrator in Japan when it comes to drawing beautiful women, and his sense and pop style have blossomed greatly in the world of illustration. Her famous work during this period includes the design of the menu for Denny's, which lasted from 1992 to 1997, and the binding of the works of Sarah Paretsky, an author specializing in women's detective stories, which she has been working on since the 1980s. Eguchi-san's work has been featured on numerous advertising posters and magazine covers, and his illustrations have become familiar to many people, many of whom may have seen them in magazines or on posters around town in the 1990s. He is one of the most successful illustrators who came from a manga background, and his sense of style has greatly influenced many future generations, not only in the manga industry but also in the illustration world, such as Nakamura Yusuke, whose style can be said to be one of the standard "beauty paintings" of today. Demonstrating his design sense in anime Eguchi-san is also active in the world of animation, making use of his sense for designing beautiful women. His own manga works “Stop! Hibari-kun!” and "Age" have also been made into anime, but his first work as an anime character designer was for "Roujin Z", an OVA masterpiece written by Otomo Katsuhiro. The main character is a beautiful woman, which is Eguchi-san's specialty, but this work also features many old people, and it seems to have been a new frontier for him in terms of drawing old people. Eguchi-san also worked as a character designer for "Perfect Blue," the feature film debut of director Kon Satoshi. He also worked as a character designer for NHK's original anime series "Uninhabited Planet Survive!", which aired from 2003 to 2004. The upcoming broadcast of "Sonny Boy" will be his first animation work in 18 years. I wonder what kind of activities the characters, who make full use of Eguchi-san's simple and cool design sense, will show. It will be interesting to see how the anime develops.

The police comedy “Police in a Pod”, in which Wakayama Shion and Ishikawa Yui will play police officer tags, will receive the TV anime adaption in 2022. The teaser visual and PV were revealed together with the announcement. The comments from the staff and casts have arrived as well. The original work of “Police in a Pod” is the manga by Yasu Miko, which is currently serialized in Kodansha “Morning”. The series sale marked 2.3 million copies , and the TV drama adaptation has been started in July 2021. A new police officer Kawai Mai, who hopes to quit her job due to heavy work, and the former elite of the police department Fuji Seiko, who graduated from the police academy with the best grades, forms a tag and will perform job comedy that makes the audience laugh, surprise, and cry. Together with the announcement o the n “Police in a Pod” TV anime adaption, the teaser visual and PV were released. The visual depicts Kawai Mai and Fuji Seiko bowing toward the viewers, and PV shows the encounter of those two. The illustration from the Yasu Miko and cast & staff comments have arrived. TV anime “Police in a Pod” is scheduled in 2022. Anime Commemoration Illustration from the original author, Yasu Miko Wakayama Shion/Kawai Mai My name is Wakayama Shion, and I will be playing Kawai Mai this time. While it is a pleasure for me to play the favorite character of my favorite manga, I'm under big pressure. To deliver the charm of Kawai, who is reckless and slow, but sharp minds and senses, I will do my best so please look at an ordinary life at Machiyama Police Station. Ishikawa Yui/Fuji Seiko This is the theme that picks up the police officers, who always work for the safety of us and our cities. I participated in the audition by thinking, “I can support them in some way”, because I have an experience of being helped by the police officers. Fuji, the role I play, is the former elite of the police department, and is called “Miss Perfect” ...but has a lot of points that should be corrected. I want to perform the daily life of police officers filled with honest comments with laughter and coolness. I want to make it appealing, together with Wakayama Shion (Kawai)! Director Satou Yuuzou The live-action drama is already on air , and the anime adaptation “Police in a Pod” is finally will be released Please watch the anime. This is the diary of police officers at the special workplace of the police station, with a reckless, new police officer Kawai will be trained (?) and that is so cute (?). Even a police officer is an ordinary girl if she takes off her uniform, and I am certain that you will support Kawai, who experiences something unique even for police officers. Series Structure; Kingetsu Ryuunosuke Never draws out something necessary, and don’t add anything unnecessary... Please look for pure 100% “Police in a Pod”. I could see Yasu-sensei every week for the script meetings and even could listen background episodes... It was a wonderful experience for her manga fan! Character Design: Tsuchiya Kei TV anime “Police in a Pod” is announced! This story is full of human stories, from funny to dramatic stories. To produce the anime that allows voice actors to perform properly, anime staff studio is cooperating entirely. Please look forward to “Police in a Pod”. ■ “Police in a Pod” ●Broadcast Information Scheduled in 2022 ●Staff Original Author: Yasu Miko (Serialized on Kodansha “Morning”) Director: Satou Yuuji Series Structure: Kingetsu Ryuunosuke Character Design: Tsuchiya Kei Animation Production MADHOUSE ●Casts Kawai Mai: Wakayama Shion Fuji Seiko: Ishikawa Yui ※Please check out the official website and Twitter account to receive special illustration by Yasu Miko on the colored papers with autographs and a name of your request to 5 applicants. © Yasu Miko, Kodansha/Police in a Pod Production Committee