Main Staff of 'Tomodachi no Imouto ga Ore ni dake Uzai' Announced

by Vindstot
Mar 10, 2024 8:23 AM | 12 Comments

The Tomodachi no Imouto ga Ore ni dake Uzai (My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me!) stage at GA Fes 2024 revealed the main staff for the television anime on Sunday.

Staff
Director: Kazuomi Koga (Kubo-san wa Mob wo Yurusanai)
Series Composition: Touko Machida (Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu wo Mankitsu suru)
Character Design: Katsuyuki Satou (Mamahaha no Tsurego ga Motokano datta)
Studio: Blade

Voice actress Reina Kondou (Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!), who played Midori Kageishi in the drama CD, is joining the main cast.

Ghost Mikawa began penning the light novel—also known by its short title ImoUza—through the GA Bunko imprint in April 2019, featuring illustrations by Tomari (Spy Kyoushitsu). SB Creative published the tenth volume in October 2022 (pictured), with the 11th volume planned for a June 15 release.

A manga adaptation by Hira Hiraoka began on the Manga UP! web magazine in December 2019. Square Enix published the seventh volume on September 7 last year.

J-Novel Club licensed the light novel in English in November 2020 and released the eighth volume physically and the tenth volume digitally in August 2023. Square Enix began publishing the manga adaptation in English through its Manga UP! and Comikey platforms in October 2023.

Source: GA Bunko on X

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Should be fun right?

Mar 23, 2024 11:56 PM by MegamiRem

Looking forward to see more about the adaption.

Mar 13, 2024 2:38 PM by jorel262

Damn, this is a whole lot of 'meh' here for the staff across the board, that doesn't boad well. That's a shame.

Mar 12, 2024 5:55 AM by Eira_97

Ohhh looks clean... I wonder how this one will be.

Mar 11, 2024 4:50 AM by KitsuFrost

@ims-tokyo I see, thanks for the insight!

Mar 10, 2024 1:00 PM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
@ims-tokyo So they're actually making anime that Silver Link can't take on directly?

In recent years, SILVER LINK. has been in the red and they’ve been aiming to reduce the deficit by increasing the amount of orders it takes on a year.

However, SILVER LINK. at present doesn’t have the human resources necessary to handle this new trend and they’ve been increasingly relying on outsourcing for its works. In the past year alone, 13 episodes of its works (excluding co-productions) were gross-contracted out to BLADE for example — which as of 2020, only has 6 full-time employees.

Mar 10, 2024 12:57 PM by ims-tokyo

@ims-tokyo So they're actually making anime that Silver Link can't take on directly?

Mar 10, 2024 12:02 PM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
@ims-tokyo So, at this point, is this studio something like White Fox and CloverWorks when they were sub-brands of their parent studios?

Sort of, yes. The animation department (BLADE) of TOKYO ANIMAIDPLAZA (changed name to BLADE in 2014) was established by former AIC ASTA producer Norio Yoshida and is an affiliated of what IIRC is a car manufacturing/logistics company run by Yoshida’s family.

However, it’s not on the same scale as for example Production IMS and TROYCA — in which IMS took over the former AIC Spirits’ studio space, as well as production of Inari Kon Kon, Date A Live, and Heaven’s Lost Property from AIC and TROYCA who took over production of Aldnoah Zero from AIC.

Mar 10, 2024 11:48 AM by ims-tokyo

@ims-tokyo So, at this point, is this studio something like White Fox and CloverWorks when they were sub-brands of their parent studios?

Mar 10, 2024 11:15 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
@ims-tokyo Were there any assumptions? I watched some of their past shows and they mostly adapted popular manga from before.

Nah, I just found it kinda funny as Norio Yoshida was the production producer for Oreimo.

BLADE as of late has been primarily focusing on a crazy amount of gross-contracting work for SILVER LINK. It would be ironic to see if there is going to be production issues for this anime like during Oreimo’s run.

Mar 10, 2024 11:11 AM by ims-tokyo

@ims-tokyo Were there any assumptions? I watched some of their past shows and they mostly adapted popular manga from before.

Mar 10, 2024 10:36 AM by RobertBobert

Ofc it’s BLADE💀

Considering Norio Yoshida was the production producer for Oreimo… but dipped AIC Build/AIC after like episode 2 to join the family business and started BLADE.

Mar 10, 2024 8:56 AM by ims-tokyo