Crunchyroll to simulcast Cinderella Nine, Joshi Kausei, Midnight Occult Civil Servants & More
Streaming service Crunchyroll has announced five more anime titles from the Spring 2019 season. These shows will be simulcasted in original Japanese audio with subtitles.
The announced shows were AMAZING STRANGER, Cinderella Nine, Joshi Kausei, Midnight Occult Civil Servants and Nobunaga Teacher’s Young Bride; the streaming territories are noted down below for each respective anime.
AMAZING STRANGER (Chou Kadou Girl ⅙: Amazing Stranger) is an adaptation of ÖYSTER’s 2012 manga series. The anime is animated by Studio A-Cat and directed by Keitaro Motonaga. The first episode will air on Saturdays starting April 6th at 4:00pm BST.
Crunchyroll will be streaming the series in territories worldwide outside of Japan.
Plot Synopsis via Crunchyroll:
Bouida Haruto is a hardcore otaku who has no interest in 3D (real) girls. One day, he bought a figure of his favorite anime heroine, Nona, but then suddenly, Nona started to move! The frenzied married life between one otaku and one robot (?) is about to start!
Cinderella Nine (Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine) is an adaptation of a 2017 free-to-play video game. The anime is animated by TMS Entertainment and directed by Susumu Kudo. The first episode will air on Sundays starting April 7th.
Crunchyroll will be streaming the series in territories worldwide outside of Asia (with France only accessible to Premium members).
Plot Synopsis via Crunchyroll:
When Arihara Tsubasa enters Rigahama Municipal High School and learns that it has no baseball club, she starts up the Girls’ Baseball Club on her own. Drawn to the club are girls who have never played baseball before, girls who once played it but quit, and girls who are constantly tackling great challenges. The Rigahama Girls’ Baseball Club races through the trials of youth, periodically clashing and quarreling, but supporting each other all the way! And so begins the hottest summer the world has ever known…
Joshi Kausei is an adaptation of Ken Wakai’s 2013 manga series. The anime is animated by the studio Seven and directed by Tokihiro Sasaki. The first episode will air on Saturdays starting April 6th at 4:15pm BST.
Crunchyroll will be streaming the series in territories worldwide outside of Japan.
Plot Synopsis via Crunchyroll:
A silent high school girl anime that’s still cute, even if no one talks! This is a story about three girls and their fun high school life, centering around the unfortunate beauty, Momoko, the cool girl with glasses, Shibumi, and the gentle little Mayumi. Fun alone, fun with all. The daily lives of slightly dumb yet cute high school girls.
Midnight Occult Civil Servants (Mayonaka no Occult Koumuin) is an adaptation of Youko Tamotsu’s 2015 manga series. The anime is animated by the studio LIDEN FILMS and directed by Tetsuya Watanabe. The first episode will air on Sundays starting April 7th.
Crunchyroll will be streaming the series in territories North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Latin America.
Plot Synopsis via Crunchyroll:
When Miyako Arata joins the Shinjuku Ward Office, he thinks he’s gotten a normal civil servant job. But it turns out he’s joined the Night Community Exchange Department, one of which operates secretly in each of Tokyo’s twenty-three ward offices. Their job is to resolve occult issues concerning non-human beings. Accompanied by his senpai and department head Sakaki Kyoichi and the occult obsessed Himetsuka Seo, they work night after night, facing off with beings whose existence defies the laws of our world.
Nobunaga Teacher’s Young Bride (Nobunaga Sensei no Osanazuma) is an adaptation of Azure Konno’s 2017 manga series. The anime is animated by the studio Seven and directed by Noriyoshi Sasaki. The uncensored version of the first episode will air on Saturdays starting April 6th at 4:20pm BST, followed by the TV broadcast version on Mondays starting April 8th.
Crunchyroll will be streaming the series in territories worldwide outside of Japan.
Plot Synopsis via Crunchyroll:
One day, there’ll be a girl who’ll fall head over heels for me.” Nobunaga was a teacher who was waiting for that kind of dating sim event to happen in real life. One day, a 14 year old girl named Kicho appears in front of him, saying that she’s his wife?! Apparently she came from the Warring States era and seems to have mistaken Nobunaga for the Oda Nobunaga and tells him that she wants to have his children. An age-gap love comedy featuring a teacher with a dating sims brain and a princess with a warring states era brain!!
More titles are to be revealed for Crunchyroll this Spring 2019 season, so stay tuned for future announcements. For previous Crunchyroll announcements, see the list below!
Part 1: Ace of the Diamond: Act II, Bakumatsu Crisis, The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater Climax Season and Shonen Ashibe: Go! Go! Goma-chan Season 4
Part 2: Fruits Basket
Part 3: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and We Never Learn: BOKUBEN
Part 4: Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu and Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki
Sources: Crunchyroll
