'Hyouka' Author's 'Shoushimin Series' Novel Gets TV Anime in Summer 2024

by Vindstot
Jan 12, 1:00 AM | 37 Comments

NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan opened an official website for a television anime adapting Honobu Yonezawa's Shoushimin Series (How to Become Ordinary) novel on Friday, revealing the main cast, staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and teaser promo. The anime series will begin airing on the NUMAnimation programming block on TV Asahi and its 24 affiliate stations and BS Asahi in July 2024.

The television anime will adapt the first two volumes—Shunki Gentei Ichigo Tart Jiken (The Spring Special Strawberry Tart Case) and Kaki Gentei Tropical Parfait Jiken (The Summer Special Tropical Parfait Case).

Voice actors Shuuichirou Umeda (Zom 100: Zombie ni Naru made ni Shitai 100 no Koto, Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san) and Hina Youmiya (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu, Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru) are starring as Jougorou Kobato and Yuki Osanai, respectively.

Staff
Director: Mamoru Kanbe (Subete ga F ni Naru, Yakusoku no Neverland)
Series Composition: Toshiya Oono (Shadows House, Houseki no Kuni)
Character Design: Atsushi Saitou (Love Live! Superstar!!, Black Fox)
Music: Takahiro Obata (Yakusoku no Neverland, Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine)
Studio: Lapin Track (Undead Girl Murder Farce, Sarazanmai)

Yonezawa began penning the youth mystery novel under Tokyo Sougensha's Sougen Suiri Bunko imprint in December 2004, approximately three years after launching the Koten-bu Series (Hyouka). The fourth installment shipped in January 2020, nearly 11 years after the third installment was published in two parts in February and March 2009. The fifth volume, Touki Gentei Bonbon Chocolat Jiken (The Winter Special Bonbon Chocolat Case), is planned for a late April 2024 release. Shoushimin Series has a cumulative 750,000 copies in print.

GFantasy irregularly serialized a manga adaptation of the first installment by Anko Manjuuya from April 2007 to December 2008. A manga adaptation of the second installment by Fua Yamasaki and OmiOmi ran in the same magazine between February 2010 and January 2011.

Synopsis
"Let's help each other and aim to become perfect ordinary citizens."

Kobato, who once had a bitter experience through deduction activities known as "wisdom work," was determined to become an honest and humble citizen. He secretly formed a reciprocal relationship with his classmate, Osanai, who shared the same aspiration, planning to make their high school debut as ordinary citizens and lead peaceful days. However, for some reason, mysterious incidents and misfortunes keep coming one after another into their school lives. Will Kobato and Osanai be able to achieve peaceful days as ordinary citizens?

Teaser PV

Official site: https://shoshimin-anime.com/
Official X (formerly Twitter): @shoshimin_pr

Source: Press Release

Shoushimin Series on MAL

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@KeepCalmAndMal My GO was extremely popular among its target audience, but the show was not as well known among normies.

Jun 12, 2:56 PM by RobertBobert

@Amble Different series by the same writer.

Jan 17, 10:01 PM by bastek66

Can yall explain to me what is this about Hyouka season 2 or just a new anime?

Jan 17, 6:17 PM by Amble

Nice! I'm gonna watching it while airing, the author being the same one who made Hyouka is the main reason why tbh. Maybe this can turn out to be great

Jan 13, 2:13 PM by Joshhhp

now announce hyouka season 2. i mean there's at least 3 more books as far as i remember.

Jan 13, 9:47 AM by TsutanaiFuun

Are these like a discount Oreki and Chitanda?

I would rather have Hyouka season two!

Jan 13, 9:24 AM by WatchTillTandava

I saw this appear on my home page and my first thought was "Why does this remind me of Hyouka?". Lo and behold, it's from the author. Sign me up.

Jan 12, 9:20 PM by BitChilly

Hmm, interesting premise. I might as well add this to my PTW.

Jan 12, 4:37 PM by StyxParadise

This will be awesome! Having read the novels as far as there English TL goes, if they stick to the source it will be fantastic. Shoushimin has a bit more of a psychological twist to it than Hyouka does, and the story has some very interesting twists to say the least. Like Hyouka, you can expect a very grounded and realistic story, but this one is a BIT lighter on the slice of life elements.

Jan 12, 1:40 PM by phantomic109

This one looks interesting even when it's far outside of my usual genres.

Jan 12, 1:18 PM by -Xenophon-

Closest thing we're gonna get for hyouka s2 😭

Haven't read or watched anything else from Honobu Yonezawa so I'm excited how this one will turn out

Jan 12, 11:35 AM by Kahyo

@KitsuFrost Well, I'd be lying if I said I was an ultra-hardcore Hyouka fan, although I do love high school detective stories. But god, the how strong withdrawal symptoms I'm feeling due to the lack of new KyoAni anime. I'm even afraid to continue watching their shows that I haven't finished yet, because after that I won't have any content left that I can watch at any time.

Jan 12, 8:48 AM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert I don't know much about to be honest, but I find this odd since it's been more than 20 years and we had only 6 volumes so far. KyoAni covered 4 volumes in 22 episodes, so I suppose they would need an equal amount of material for a second season. As someone who read the series and watched the anime, I can say the adaptation was indeed very creative and even enhanced some scenes and relationships that weren't that fleshed out in the original material.

Jan 12, 8:42 AM by KitsuFrost

@KitsuFrost Has the author lost interest? Or did he never have plans for this? I've heard that KyoAni has a tendency to make anime based on a small amount of material and then expand on it themselves, but as far as I understand, they didn't publish it...

Jan 12, 8:38 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
At first I wanted to “complain” that they were working on this show instead of a continuation of Hyouka, but then I remembered some insights that there was some kind of misunderstanding between the author and KyoAni and therefore the anime did not receive any further development. Is it so?

Yes, and the novel doesn't have enough material for a second part. It's been 7 years or so and still nothing of the next volume.

Jan 12, 8:35 AM by KitsuFrost

Since the Kotenbu Series and Hyouka are amazing, I am sure this series will be just great!

Jan 12, 8:29 AM by KitsuFrost

@Ionliosite2 Including. True, the author focused more on their belief that IP was very much devalued after the infamous eight episodes. Personally, I still want to see the movie and the spin-off from another studio, but I just can't find the mood, even when the author seems to be back in publishing.

Jan 12, 8:22 AM by RobertBobert

It's from the same author, so it's worth a shot.

Though in all honesty, hope we would've seen Hyouka making a return instead.

Jan 12, 8:15 AM by Softhenic03

Hyouka had great characters but was lacking in terms of plot/romance

I hope this one have a lot of romance

Jan 12, 8:09 AM by tragedydesu

@RobertBobert What happened with Haruhi is that said novel is published by Kadokawa, and KyoAni no longer makes anime for novels that weren't published under their own imprint, as that allows them for greater control in production committees.

Jan 12, 8:05 AM by Ionliosite2

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