#HIDIVE Licenses Plus-Sized Elf for Summer 2024 Season

HIDIVE has announced that it will exclusively stream the upcoming fantasy comedy series Plus-Sized Elf as part of its Summer 2024 anime simulcast. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan sometime in July 2024. 

Toshikatsu Tokoro (Soul Link) is directing the anime, with Katsuyuki Sato (Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!) as character designer, Yuuki Takabayashi (We Love Rice) as series screenwriter, and Cher Watanabe (The Prince of Tennis, Maken-Ki!) as music composer. Elias is handling the animation production for the series. 

Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes:

• • Takahide Ishii as Tomoatsu Naoe
• • Ayasa Ito as Elfuda
• • Rena Hasegawa as Kuroeda
• • Ayaka Fukuhara as Olga 

Synecdoche’s manga series was first launched digitally on Wani Books’ Comic Gum website from December 21, 2016 to June 17, 2020. Wani Books’ license for the manga expired in 2020 and the series entered a short hiatus. Synecdoche then self published the 46th and 47th chapters of the manga on their Twitter account between April 30, 2021 to May 29, 2021. Eight total tankobon volumes were released during its publication. 

Akita Shoten acquired the rights for the manga and reprinted the series between June 20, 2022 to February 20, 2023. Shortly after, a new sequel manga series titled Plus-Sized Elf: Super Sized! was launched in Dokodemo Young Champion on October 26, 2021, with three tankobon volumes being released as of January 2024. 

HIDIVE describes the synopsis of Plus-Sized Elf as: 

Naoe-kun, a massage therapist, is about to head home for the day when he’s saddled with a rather strange patient. This lovely lady has emerald eyes, pointy ears, and grew up in the forest—everything about her screams “elf,” except for one thing: her bodacious body. It turns out she left her world but loves junk food in this one, and now her obsession has caught up with her. Can Naoe-kun help this loveable elf girl lose the weight—and keep it off? 

Source: press release