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Bakutsuri Bar Hunter TV Anime's Character Designs Revealed
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The staff of the Bakutsuri Bar Hunter television anime series revealed the character designs for the four main characters on Friday.
The anime stars: (Note: name spellings aren't confirmed)
Ryō Hirohashi as protagonist Totta Tachitsute
Yumi Uchiyama as Totta's bar soul partner Potepen
Mitsuki Saiga as Totta's rival Kiba Samejima
Kōta Nemoto as the bar soul Shuwajirō
Kenji Setō (The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water, Ms. Koizumi loves ramen noodles) is serving as series director. Yoichi Kato (Aikatsu!, Duel Masters, Yo-kai Watch) is handling the series composition, Akemi Yokota (Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V) is designing the characters, and Takatsugu Wakabayashi (PriPri Chii-chan!!, Ange Vierge, Dragonar Academy) is composing the music.
The anime will center on the elementary school student Totta, who loves to fish. One day a bar soul named Potepen appears from the barcode on Totta's bag of potato chips. Together, Totta and Potepen use a special "Bakutsuri" bar rod item to fish for other bar souls.
The anime will premiere this fall on TV Tokyo and its affiliates.
Source: Comic Natalie
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