Kyoto Animation Adapts 'Nichijou' Author's 'City' Manga for 2025 TV Anime

by Vindstot
Sep 21, 2024 6:01 AM | 34 Comments

The Kyoto Animation 2025 New Work Presentation special program announced a television anime adaptation of Keiichi Arawi's City manga on Saturday. The anime series is scheduled for a 2025 debut.

Taichi Ishidate (Violet Evergarden, Kyoukai no Kanata) is directing the television anime at Kyoto Animation. Voice actresses Mikako Komatsu (Hai to Gensou no Grimgar), Aki Toyosaki (K-On!), and Yui Ishikawa (NieR:Automata Ver1.1a) are starring as Midori Nagumo, Niikura, and Wako Izumi, respectively.

Arawi, best known for Nichijou, began drawing the slice of life comedy manga in Morning weekly magazine in September 2016. Following a four and a half-year-run, Arawi concluded the manga in February 2021. Kodansha published the 13th and final volume in April that year.

Vertical licensed the manga in English in July 2017 and released all 13 volumes between March 2018 and January 2022.

Synopsis
Midori is in a bit of a bind. She is in debt, and her landlady is trying to shake her down for unpaid rent. Her best friend refuses to loan her cash since she's wised up to her tricks. Maybe some bullying would help. Or a bit of petty theft? Neither is sustainable. Maybe getting a job would settle things... But working means less time for fun adventures in the big city... (Source: Vertical)

Teaser PV

Official site: https://city-the-animation.com/
Official X: @city_anime_info

Source: Comic Natalie

City The Animation on MAL

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Vindstot said:

Glorious news. A nichijou sequel would’ve been even better, but I can’t complain.

Sep 26, 2024 7:37 AM by thinkpad

Good enough. Welcome back, Nichijou Season 2.

Sep 26, 2024 6:11 AM by justmaya

Peak comedy may be back on the menu.

I'll probably check out the manga.

Sep 23, 2024 11:18 AM by malvarez1

Yay! I'm looking forward to it!

Sep 22, 2024 6:23 AM by AE-2

Hell ye lets gooooooooo!!!!!

Sep 21, 2024 10:00 PM by Fedge

letsgoooooooooooooooo

Sep 21, 2024 9:18 PM by HannUndefined

i might watch this one

Sep 21, 2024 1:06 PM by deg

@Nachtwandler_21 I just wanted to point out that the original chapters are quite short, so they will potentially need more time to wait for the new material to arrive in the right amount.

Sep 21, 2024 12:36 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert no idea as I have nort read it myself but this is what manga readers are saying. Anime adapted majority of manga. And since it resumed last year or so only 1 volume came out.

Sep 21, 2024 12:31 PM by Nachtwandler_21

Let’s gooooo 🤩 I can’t wait. Hope it becomes so popular that Nichijou gets a second season!

Sep 21, 2024 12:30 PM by imjayhime

I'm interested in a brand new KyoAni show airing six years after Tsurune. And it's the Nichijou author so this is going to be a blast!!!

Sep 21, 2024 12:20 PM by Joshhhp

@Nachtwandler_21 How many chapters did they adapt into one episode of the original anime? 3-4?

Sep 21, 2024 11:20 AM by RobertBobert

PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK

Sep 21, 2024 10:15 AM by Pre_Yum

@Yubisoft not enough material. First season adapted 8 or 9 out of 10 manga volumes that came out initially. And the author only recently decided to resume it.

Sep 21, 2024 10:06 AM by Nachtwandler_21

@Yubisoft Well, Minami-ke was always the more mainstream and financially successful adaptation, judging by the amount of anime it ended up producing. The question here is whether Nichijou has become the type of work that initially failed but ended up proving popular and earning respect among audiences over time. At least, the director herself still calls them her favorite work, despite much more successful titles.

Sep 21, 2024 9:44 AM by RobertBobert

not a sol/comedy fan so i'm not going to watch this but i'm so happy that kyoto will make another anime
may they recover completely and bless us with more top tier animation

Sep 21, 2024 9:43 AM by tragedydesu

@animegamer245 If Minami-ke managed to be revived then I can remain hopeful that Nichijou will also be revived. That all I have to say about this subject

Sep 21, 2024 9:24 AM by Yubisoft

Very neat! It'll be added to the plan to watch list! This is SO COOL they finally are adapting this into an anime!

Sep 21, 2024 8:44 AM by Yuno

animegamer245 said:
I mean the fans didn't buy it, which is the issue.

But now we are in 2024 and companies rely more on profit from services so it easier for them to earn profit. By your logic Chainsaw man will never get a continuation because the Blu ray sales of season 1 were terrible... wait it did. Also if sales were low so many years ago for Nichijou which again it still very popular, why did they choose to animate a completely different manga and that is even more problematic for the studio since they have nothing to predict the success of this new anime ? Sorry but I fail to understand both your logic and what you are ttrying to achieve here by writing :

animegamer245 said:
The original Nichijou anime was a failure in Japan.

Sep 21, 2024 8:40 AM by Yubisoft

I was expecting "Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku" (20th Century Electricity Catalog) anime announcement but instead we got this. I am not a huge comidy fan so kinda disappointed.

Sep 21, 2024 8:35 AM by ZXEAN

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