A new, 60-second trailer for Yojohan Time Machine Blues has been released, providing a longer preview of the upcoming sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. A poster visual was also released.

Yojohan Time Machine Blues will premiere in Japan on September 14 via Disney+. A three-week theatrical run will begin on September 30. The Disney+ version will include a streaming-exclusive episode.

The anime is based on the 2020 Kadokawa-published novel written by Tomihiko Morimi based on a concept from Makoto Ueda. The book is a sequel to 2005’s The Tatami Galaxy and is also described as a “collaboration” between that novel and Ueda’s Summer Time Machine Blues stage play. The Yojohan Time Machine Blues website calls the anime a “devilish combination” of The Tatami Galaxy and Summer Time Machine Blues.

The premise involves the remote of the only air conditioner in the Shimogamoyuusui residence damaged after being submerged in water by Ozu, the friend of the protagonist, “Me.” As “Me” attempts to come up with a response to this turn of events with Akashi, the cool beauty of the Misogi movie circle, a student named Tamura, who claims to have travelled from 25 years in the future via a time machine, appears. “Me” comes up with the idea of going back in time to resolve the air conditioner predicament, but Ozu and other parties end up altering the previous day and rewriting the past with the time machine.

Yojohan Time Machine Blues‘s staff includes Shingo Natsume (One-Punch Man, Sonny Boy) as director, Ueda (The Tatami Galaxy series composer) as scriptwriter, Yuusuke Nakamura (The Tatami Galaxy) as original character designer, and Michiru Ooshima (The Tatami Galaxy) as music composer. Science SARU is the animation production studio.

Other staff include Nobutake Itou (The Tatami Galaxy) and Shouko Nishigaki (The Tatami Galaxy animation director) as character designers, Fuminao Akai (Yurei Deco) as art director, Ayaka Nakamura (Ride Your Wave) as color designer, and Hikari Itou (Yurei Deco) and Yoshihiro Sekiya (Yurei Deco) as photography directors. 

Meanwhile, the returning cast includes Shintarou Asanuma as “Me,” Maaya Sakamoto as Akashi, Hiroyuki Yoshino as Ozu, Junichi Suwabe as Jougasaki-senpai, Yuuko Kaida as Hanuki-san, and Setsuji Satou as Aijima-senpai. Kazuya Nakai is playing Seitarou Higuchi, having taking over the role from the late Keiji Fujiwara in 2017’s The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl movie.

Actor Chikara Honda, who had a small role in The Tatami Galaxy, is playing Tamura-kun. Honda also previously played the time-traveller Akira Tamura in the 2005 Summer Time Machine Blues live-action film. 

Science SARU previously produced the 2010 11-episode anime series adaptation of The Tatami Galaxy and the 2017 anime film adaptation of its spiritual successor, Night Is Short, Walk On Girl. Those adaptations were directed by Masaaki Yuasa, with Natsume contributing some of the show’s storyboards and serving as episode director for The Tatami Galaxy‘s sixth episode.

Sources: Asmik Ace YouTube channel, @4andahalf_tmb