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Crunchyroll Adds Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life: Phantasmagoric Arc Anime
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Media distribution site Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will stream Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life: Phantasmagoric Arc (Wooser no Sono Higurashi Mugen-hen), the third anime adaptation of Yoshiki Usa and Tomoko Fujinoki's Wooser no Sono Higurashi (Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life) manga.
The site will stream the series worldwide outside of Japan. Crunchyroll will announce the date and time that it will post the first episode at a later date, but new episodes will stream on Fridays at 11:50 a.m. EDT.
Wooser no Sono Higurashi: Mugen-hen is premiering on Friday on the Tokyo MX and BS11 channels in the newly created "Ultra Super Anime Time" timeslot. The show will be one of three short anime to run in the timeslot from Ultra Super Pictures (SANZIGEN Animation Studio, Ordet, Trigger, LIDEN FILMS). Crunchyroll's Twitter account posted in March that Crunchyroll would stream the third series, but the Tweet was removed shortly after.
The returning cast includes:
- Mamoru Miyano as Wooser
- Minori Ozawa as Rin
- Haruka Nagamune as Ren
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Darth Wooser
- Tia as Yū
- Yuri Sato as Miho
- Yukari Tamura as Announcement Wooser
The staff includes:
- Original creator: Yoshiki Usa
- Character Design: Tomoko Fujinoki
- Director: Seiji Mizushima
- Series Composition: Yoshiki Usa
- Script: Yuniko Ayana, Jirō Ishii, Makoto Uezu, Yoshiki Usa, Gen Urobuchi, Yousuke Kuroda, Yun Kouga, Kazutaka Kodaka, Shigeto Koyama, Tatsuya Takahashi, Yoshiko Nakamura, Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, Masaya Honda
- Anime Production: SANZIGEN Animation Studio
- Production: Project Wooser
Each of the writers will write one episode each.
Yun*chi (Log Horizon) will perform the show's theme song "Lucky Girl*." Taku Takahashi of the musical unit m-flo is producing the song, and Yūki Kawamura is writing the lyrics.
Tomoko Fujinoki and supercell member Yoshiki Usa's Wooser no Sono Higurashi original 3D shorts center around Wooser, a mysterious mascot character who lives on the Internet and whose charming appearance belies a corrupt heart that craves money, meat, and gals.
The first anime season of Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life premiered in 2012 in Japan. The second season premiered last year, and Crunchyroll streamed both seasons.