Do you think 2020's "Earthbound Boy Hanako-kun" looks good?

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"Earthbound Teen Hanako-kun" is based on the manga of the same name by manga artist あいだいろ, serialized in Monthly G Fantasy, and brings to life a weird character that no one in Japan knows about? Hanako-kun? The bold idea of setting up a perverted boy ghost who hides in the girls' restroom, coupled with a succession of personalized characters in the work, has quickly gained support from readers.

Prior to the anime, "Earthbound Boy Hanako-kun" had already hosted three linked cafes, and Lerche producer Isao Bika and supervisor Masatoshi Ando sneaked into the cafes to experience the popularity of the work and the love of the fans for it firsthand. Supervisor Ando even exchanged special badges with other customers.

To begin adapting such a popular work into an anime, the production team placed great importance on restoring the original work. Readers of the manga will be impressed by the nostalgic yet distinctive use of color. The key artwork and PVs that have been released for the anime recreate the characters, brushstrokes, and coloring style of the original work so well that even the author and editor-in-chief of the anime, Aida Iro, have been surprised and y moved.

The art background was handled by renowned studio Kusanagi, and is beautifully crafted while also trying its best to recreate the atmosphere of the manga. The music was composed by Yoh Takagi, adding a sense of horror and joy at the right time while combining the images to create a sense of period and high style.

In terms of storytelling, Supervisor Ando had read the manga and found it difficult to fit the work into a comprehensible box: it's funny, but then it turns scary, and sometimes there are fights. If one of these elements had been emphasized too much during the production of the anime, the anime would not have been Hanako-kun, the Earthbound Boy. In order to fully retain the aura of the work, he needed to maintain a neutral and calm perspective. The closest thing to this perspective in the work is the monster that comes and goes without a trace? Do Not Monster? The supervisor felt that his job this time was to ? Become a monster? And the monsters are cute! That alone makes this manga a 100!

The main character of the work, Hanako-kun, is a cute boy on the outside, but at the same time is a mysterious, unpredictable, and weird character. The production team commissioned Megumi Ogata to voice Hanako-kun, and this is her third time playing Hanako-kun. Although Hanako-kun always has a look on his face that makes it hard to tell what he's thinking, he's not always so out of touch. As the plot develops, people will also see a different side of him.

Ning, the female lead, is, in Supervisor Ando's words, a ? Wish-full type? The main character is a "wish-full" type. She's in the prime of her life, very loyal to her desires, and at the same time, she's always getting into trouble because she's too loyal, getting help from other characters, and it's very easy to understand, and it's the easiest character for readers to get emotionally involved with.