#Yojohan Time Machine Blues Gets More Cast Details, Original Character Design Release

The upcoming Yojohan Time Machine Blues anime adaptation has released more cast details, with the newly announced cast members being Setsuji Satou as Aijima-senpai and Chikara Honda as Tamura-kun. 

The anime’s Twitter page also unveiled the original character designs by illustrator Yuusuke Nakamura (The Tatami Galaxy).

Yojohan Time Machine Blues is set to be released in 2022. The show will first be released on Disney+ as a series, and there will also be a “completely original episode” that is exclusive to the streaming platform. The anime will later be reedited into a movie and receive a theatrical release.

The Yojohan Time Machine Blues novel is written by Tomihiko Morimi and based on a concept by Makoto Ueda. Published in 2020, the novel is the sequel to 2005’s The Tatami Galaxy, which also received an anime adaptation. AnimeAnime describes Yojohan Time Machine Blues‘s plot as:

The story begins on one hot summer’s day, when ”Me”’s bad friend, Ozu, destroys a certain aircon remote controller from the student dormitories by soaking it in water.

The cool beauty, Akashi-san, who briefly wonders how she is going to spend her summer agrees to come up with a plan when a dim-witted looking male student who claims to have traveled from 25 years in the future by a time machine appears. “Me”, who thinks about returning to the past in the order to retrieve the remote before it was destroyed is, however…..

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

Source: @4andahalf_tmb