#Shouko Nagasawa

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Nagasawa forgot to announce this, but she drew the illustration for the B2 cloth poster which is available if you purchase all of the discs from Animate. Homura is wearing clothes which Nagasawa didn't have a chance to depict in the original work.

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Fairy Ranmaru, trailer e tutti i dettagli sul nuovo anime originale di Studio Comet

Svelati cast e staff della serie in arrivo ad aprile!

Come anticipato, durante una diretta oggi è stata presentata ufficialmente “Fairy Ranmaru: Anata no Kokoro Otasuke Shimasu”, la nuova serie animata originale di Studio Comet che, dopo “RobiHachi”, da aprile porterà sulle tv giapponesi quella che ha tutta l’aria di essere una nuova folle parodia, sullo stile di “Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!” (potete trovare le avventure dei “maghetti” in streaming su Crunchyroll).

Di seguito trovate il primo video promozionale con in sottofondo la sigla di testa “Ayashiku Get your heart”, cantata dai 5 to Heaven, quintetto formato dai doppiatori dei protagonisti.

Il cast principale è composta da:

Ranmaru Ai: Shogo Sakata (Karin Sasaki in Fire Force)

Homura Hoterase: Kohsuke Tanabe (Lauren in Bakugan: Armored Alliance) 

Uru Seiren: Yutaka Balletta (Yuto Hagi in Battery)

Juka Mutsuoka: Taichi Kusano (Taichi Betsuyaku in World Trigger) 

Takara Utashiro: Akihiro Hori 

Il progetto è supervisionato da Masakazu Hishida (King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars , Pretty Rhythm All Star Selection) e diretto da Kousuke Kobayashi (Alice or Alice, The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar). La sceneggiatura è curata da Jou Aoba (King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars, King of Prism: Pride the Hero), mentre il design dei personaggi è ad opera di Shouko Nagasawa, per quanto riguarda la forma umana, di Andgy nel caso delle trasformazioni e di Tomoko Miyakawa (Cute High Earth Defense Club HAPPY KISS!) se parliamo delle mascotte. Le musiche, invece, sono composte da yamazo (Yama no Susume: Third Season, Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! LOVE!).

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Happy belated birthday to Tanabe from Nagasawa.

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Fairy Ranmaru will have a pop-up shop from The Chara in the Shinjuku Marui annex on the 6th floor from the 16th - 30th July 2021.

To commemorate the last episode airing, there will be a Kinki Kaihou Namahousou on the 24th of June at 9 pm (Japanese time). As always, send your questions etc. to 5toheaven (at) ponymail.jp .

More details are available about the Karaoke no Tetsujin collab. Use the QR code at the bottom of the image to preorder the merch from Animate from the 25th of June at 11 am until the 31st of August at 11:59 pm (all times Japanese time).

Here's samples of the Hobby Japan mousepads, including a comparison of Takara's with Ranmaru's to show you what "mune atsu" looks like. The preorder deadline is the 5th of July. The tweet even recommends placing the mousepad on an easel for display due to their size (note Hobby Japan does not sell easels, you'll have to get one yourself).

Here's the video for Saga of Love and Hatred, Chilka's character song.

Thanks for watching ep. 11. Here's a picture from Shouko Nagasawa, who did the human character designs and was the chief animation director of those too.

The Winter Tri-angels (Sakata and Sumiya) have a song called Tri-Angel▽Signal which will appear on the soundtrack (sold on the 23rd of June). Here's the jacket for the OST.

DVD/BD 1 is currently being sold. The promotional video for it says Canime buyers will receive special CD 1 with the Ranmaru versions of Ayashiku Get Your Heart and Yousei Aika.

Update: Content of the special CD confirmed. Thanks, @eevaleev .

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Thanks for watching episode 5. This image is from "the key frame staff".

Also, here's a Takara from Shouko Nagasawa.

Likewise, here's new images from Andgy.

To top it all off, here's Nomoto's Takara.

Here's Takara's character song/Enka, called 愛の勘定 (Ai no Kanjou), roughly "Payment of Love", "Consideration of Love" or "Allowance of Love" (kanjou seems to have a lot of connotations involving money).

Notes on Kusano's Bar F entry (dated May 6th 2021) below (contains spoilers for ep. 4).

Kusano introduces himself and, a bit further down from his own intro, explains the character of the day is Kei Rijuu (<-English name order), a member of the group Aurora Vikings. (Other entries don't normally go that far, instead only using the names offhandedly without explaining how they're read...which is a pain for me, because I have to guess the name reading when I read the synopses or the credits).

Kusano says he'll keep it brief after Balletta rambled on quite a bit last time.

Kusano has a cat allergy so he can't play with cats, but he wants to.

[There's emojis, kaomoji and half-width text scattered throughout this entry, so be sure to look at it!]

Kusano calls [being] cute "a fate [Juka] can't run from...(LOL)".

Kusano thinks he would be a fan of Kei if he could, even though he says she appears to be bad at dancing.

When Eru appears for the first time (in person), that's where the Ange Reve song comes in. Kusano thanks them for the fantastic song.

Kusano notes they hit the bath scene quota. He giggled at the fact you can see Uruu has a duck in his bucket and wonders what's going on with Homura and Uruu.

Kusano notes Juka doesn't seem to be meeting the queen's expectations. He also notes Juka and Kei have an inferiority complex in common and that Juka's cute when he sticks his tongue out at the end of the A part.

On to the B part. Kusano calls those who buy 1000 CDs "amazing" (with a sweatdrop kaomoji).

He notes there's not a lot of cloth for Juka's fairy costume and he has a cute [omitted] (<- the word before the omitted part translates to "section" or could be taken as short for "chikuwabu", so it's probably something about the *erhem* nether regions again...). Kusano says the way Juka hops around while running (for his transformation) is cute.

Otokogi de Tango time. Kusano says Juka exudes cuteness.

Kusano identifies the shadowy figure as Sirius and quotes him: "'Betelgeuse...!' He said something about Betelgeuse...?" (The 2nd sentence was in Osaka-ben because Kusano is from Osaka...Strangely, it's the only sentence in this blog post that's in Osaka-ben, though, as all other sentences in the blog post - aside from Takara's comment, if you'd count that - are in standard Japanese.)

「You やっちゃいなよ」「やっておしまい！」 - Kusano laughed at this exchange. (CR translation: "Is that the real you?"/"No! Don't look!")

"人間って難しい生き物ですねと改めて思ったシーンでした(´･ω･`)ﾄﾎﾎ" - "[The scene where Kei becomes the centre but also privately meets with fans] is a scene that makes you once again think about how humans are troublesome creatures (´･ω･`) (Tohoho)"

Kusano likes the scene where Juka accepts being called cute by Ranmaru (at the very end), because it seems like Juka matured, even a little.

"以上！今回もフィクションでした♪ﾀﾞﾏｻﾚﾀｰ" - "That's all! This time, it was also fiction♪ (you were deceived)"

Kusano calls Takara ecchi na oniisan (the perverted "older brother").

Takara finally has a response other than being overwhelmed and it's: 「かわ･･･ 格好よかったで。 俺からもお礼だお！」 ("That's cu-cool. I also apologise!")

Update: Changed the 3rd-last dotpoint to adhere to the quote more, added Nomoto's art and inserted a missing letter on the 1st dotpoint after the cut.

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Thanks for watching episode 3. Here's a small Uruu from Hatsumi Takahashi, the chief animation director of the everyday parts.

Likewise, here's one from Shouko Nagasawa. (This is a pun on how うるうる (uru uru) means "teary-eyed" or "damp/moist (skin, hair etc.)".)

Video comment from Balletta about episode 3.

According to Balletta, Uruu's name trended in the Kanto region during the airing of episode 3.

(Potential spoilers for episode 3!) Here's a video of Uruu's character song. Its name is 俺の心は雨模様 (Ore no Kokoro wa Ame Moyou, roughly something like "My Heart Seems Like the Rain").

(Potential spoilers for episode 3!) Guests for episode 3 were Satomi Sato as Iyo (who Hishida knows from Rilu Rilu Fairilu) and Soma Saito as Souji (who Hishida knows from King of Prism, since Saito is Yukinojo there). Hishida calls them "childhood friends" in his tweet because of his previous associations with them. By the way, this episode aired on Saito's birthday. Was it an appropriate way to end the day?...You can be the judge of that, after you watch the episode.

(Potential spoilers for episode 2!) Also, Niizuka's voice actor is Mitsuaki Madono. (No one mentioned it on Twitter, though...)

New image from Andgy. (This got tagged as "sensitive" on Twitter, so it's under a cut to be safe...)

Also, observations from Tanabe's Bar F entry (dated 17th April 2021, will contain spoilers for episode 2) under the cut.

Andgy's image (will this violate Tumblr's terms of use, or will it be flagged by a bot? Time to find out...):

Tanabe's Bar F entry:

"蘭丸は十訓botにw" - "Ranmaru's a bot for the Ten Laws, LOL."

Tanabe singles out Hori's reaction (giggling) towards how Homura can say such cool things with a straight face (referring to the things Homura said to help Shiina out in the first half of the episode, which Tanabe calls "wise saying time").

Tanabe thought, "Is Twitter okay with shots of Homura's nether regions?"

Tanabe puts a shameless link to Homura no Hana's video on YouTube at the end.

Takara makes comments at the end of every post, normally along the lines of "I-Is that so...?" or something like that. This time he went, "Y-Yeah, you're right..." It seems these comments actually come from Hori himself, because Hori tweeted, "To think Kohsuke would write such a long post...(′つω；｀)" and in the same tweet, he confirms he had the reaction Tanabe says he did. ("思えば2話の時からわいはｷｬｯｷｬｯしとったんやなぁww" - roughly, "Now that I remember it, I did giggle during episode 2, but you're accusing me of it? LOL")

Update: Typed a date wrong.

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There's a lot of love for Juka this time. The images are from a genga (key frame) artist (there doesn't seem to be a source confirming the reading of their name, but it's written "程 玉芬" in Japanese), Shoko Nagasawa and Andgy respectively.

Here's the YouTube video for episode 4's insert song (Enka), Otokogi de Tango. Balletta even makes a pun about it (tango ni suki ni nattango).

Notes from Balletta's Bar F entry (dated 19th April 2021) below. Balletta quotes a lot more than the others do, so expect spoilers for episode 3, down to the quote level!

The top of each entry, just before the title of the blog post, says "Today's customer" in line with the "Menu" for the navigation.

[The reason I keep linking the Bar F page is...well, not only does that allow easy access to the original text, but there's a bunch of coloured bits I'm not able to convey in Tumblr without wrangling HTML, which I could have done with the old editor...but I'm using the new editor and don't want to break anything by switching between them.]

Balletta starts with greeting everyone in various ways: "皆さんおはようございます！こんにちは！こんばんは！Hello！" - "Everyone, good morning! Good afternoon! Good evening! Hello!"

Balletta then goes on to discuss Uruu's English. He panicked a bit because he can't speak English but he thinks the scene went well.

Balletta becomes envious of Uruu because Uruu is popular at school, despite his attitude of being proper all the time.

Balletta notes Uruu looks like a woman at times when he has his hair up in the bath. (He calls the hairstyle "odango hair".) He calls Uruu "beautiful", but Homura's hair-down style "stylish/cool". "そして蘭丸くん、お風呂の時くらい眼鏡を外しなさい" - "Also, Ranmaru-kun, please take your glasses off while in the bath."

Balletta notes you could see Uruu's butt when he left and thanks whoever was responsible for the "[fan]service shot".

Balletta liked some of the callouts Souji has during his event and wants to use that for an event. He explicitly cites the line 「俺も皆のこと大好きでーす??」 (Ore mo minna no koto daisuki de-su??, CR translation: "I love you guys", because in the context of the episode it's used as a response rather than a question), as well as 「よっ！ワビサビ！」 (Yo, wabisabi!), 「結構なお手前で！」 (Kekkou na otemae de!).

Balletta calls Homura's blushing face "cute". He liked Hori's delivery of the line 「かっこえぇなぁ?」 (CR translation: "Very cool!") and calls Ranmaru and Bakkun playing with marshmallows "a cute pair".

A bit further down the post, Balletta says they achieved the curry quota for episode 3. He notes Homura and Uruu's relationship is full of mysteries and the water and fire clans don't get along - he wonders if this is foreshadowing and whether Takara knows something about this.

Balletta notes Ranmaru has a small goat with him and the school anthem quota is also filled for the episode during the scene between Ranmaru and Uruu. He specifically quotes Uruu's line which is representative of his way of living: 「正しい心を持っていれば、世界はそれに応えてくれる。」 (The CR translation of the line is "When one maintains internal propriety, the world comes to reflect that.") Balletta calls Uruu's way of thinking and even his heart "like a clear and transparent crystal".

"This is 100% foreshadowing!" Balletta declares about the shot reflected in Uruu's eyes.

Balletta says cheering someone on is good but hoarding goods like Iyo does is bad and you should leave some for other people.

Balletta likes Houjou's line: 「お戯れを」. (CR translation: "Your Majesty teases me.") Balletta also became interested in what sort of fairy Houjou was in his youth.

[From this point forward, the post becomes a lot more descriptive of the events that happen in the episode.]

There's also apparently a 「違うか！？」 (Chigauka?!) quota.

Balletta calls the water clan the strongest because they're capable of ice and snow attacks too and he calls Uruu's wings "pretty".

"「オン　マヤルタ　ハリキラ」 夭聖界の言葉ですね。決してカビキラーではありませんよ！笑" - "'On miyalta harikira.' They're words from the fairy world. They're not mould killer (kabi kiraa), LOL." (Kabi kiraa seems to be this mould killer specifically.)

The song from the "On miyalta harikira" scene was also used during Otasuke Heaven (the mini show the voice actors do on the YouTube channel).

Apparently the director says to make the "go to heaven" delivery different each time.

Even Balletta is surprised when the queen says Uruu wanted the punishment. Balletta calls Homura "kind" because he (Homura) cares about his friends.

At the end, Balletta thanks 5 to Heaven, the staff, illustrators, directors, composer etc. He explicitly asks Hishida (the main director of the anime) for a celebration after all the events are over. [He uses a lot of exclamation marks around this part, so you can tell he's passionate about his work even if you can't read the Japanese.]

Takara's comment: "Looks like he took up 22 sheets of genkou youshi..." (Genkou youshi = writing paper.)

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Thanks for watching episode 7. Here's a Homura from Yuu Yoshiyama, who did key frames for Homura's enka and transformation. (Yattaze! = "We did it!", or maybe "I did it!")

A pic of the Queen from Shouko Nagasawa.

New pic from Andgy.

There's a new Otasuke Heaven from 9 pm (Japanese time) tonight (May 21st 2021). This one is no. 11.

Heaven's Door, the character song CD, is out on June 16th. If you purchase it from Canime, you'll get one of five random cast-signed bromides. (...while stocks of the bromides last, that is.)

BD and DVD 1 and 2 (out on June 16th and July 21st respectively) will give you the ability to advance book for the event "Fairy Ranmaru Special Live". The event is on September 18th at Yamano Hall and 5 to Heaven will be attending. Please remember to follow all COVID regulations (explained on the website).

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As it turns out, Balletta's birthday is on the 8th of August and Hori's is on the 24th of August. Happy belated birthday to both of them. (Shouko Nagasawa notes Takara looks warm in his black clothing and so took it off for this picture, while Uruu's summer clothing, and his alone, is probably silk.) (Uruu is pronouncing "happy birthday" fluently, while Takara is holding up 3 fingers (san) in accordance with the omedetosan (literally "congratulations", but more of a "thank you" in context) he's saying.)

Kusano got ahold of his Hobby Japan Bakkun...(maybe a bit too tightly, though, in one case)...

Here's a look at the Animage for September, which was sold on the 10th of August 2021. Specifically, this is the free space with content from Shouko Nagasawa and Mika Yamamoto. You can also see an interview with those two from Animage Plus here (note it contains discussion of the back half of the anime, mostly epsiode 9) - this interview reveals the easiest character to draw, for them, is Juka, for one thing.

Update: Fixed the wording of the final dotpoint.

Update 2: The dates 8th of August and 24th of August refer to Balletta and Hori, respectively, not their characters. Thanks, @eevaleev.

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Thanks for watching episode 6. This image is by Masayuki Nomoto, who did the key frames for Ranmaru's transformation and enka.

Here's a Sirius from Shouko Nagasawa.

(Potential spoilers for episode 6!) Lynn voiced Chika. See what she had to say about it here.

If anyone's in Japan and is hoping on catching up with the series, episodes 1 - 6 are going to be free on GYAO! until the 20th of May 2021.

A video message from Sakata regarding episode 6.

The first (Japanese) DVD/BD goes on sale on June 16th. The bonuses include a special booklet and the DVD Et Fran de Muse After School (1).

Hori has entered Bar F. See more details about the post (dated May 13th 2021) under the cut. Spoilers below!

(Lately, they've been cutting the posts really close to the premiere of the next episode...It's to the point where I managed to watch episode 5 and then look at Hori's post, even though I'm on a 1-week -behind schedule.)

Hori says, "Everyone, good morning! Today's breakfast is curry!" He then introduces himself and after saying thanks for the real time comments (part of the campaign), he warns this post's a long one.

Hori calls the woman's opening "pillow talk" "sexy".

Instead of the usual もどして (return), it was もどしたりもどさなかったりしろ (something like "returning or not returning, do it anyway") so he laughed because it was far too lax. Hori's written that it was in the comments somewhere, but it's not in the episode or the tweets...(I translated the phrases assuming this was in the script regarding the transition around the cat scene, but if anyone can tell me where these are from, then please help me correct it!)

Hori smiled (he uses a grammatical structure that suggests he wasn't intending to smile) at Juka and Ranmaru being a comic duo. He says they have a good tempo for dialogue.

Hori notes Takara gets away with lying to the Queen.

Hori doesn't believe the name of the grocer is Yaochou. (Yaochou means “fixed game”, but it’s a pun on the word for “grocer” (八百屋, read yaoya and sharing the first two kanji, hence the CR translation of “Fixed Grocer”.)

The client's name is Ruise Emu (Japanese name order). Notably, "Ruise" is similar to the word you'll get if you reverse the sounds of セール (sale).

Hori puts a snake emoji around here because the exclamation バイトぉ！？ (Baitoo?!, "A part-time job?!" - it's derived from the Dutch arbeit, apparently) makes it sound like "(snake) bite". Also, Hori's moniker is "Snake Bite" because one time he was pointing and he kind of looked like a snake. Someone called him "Snake Bite Hori" around that point and that name's stuck ever since (see 52:05 in this live stream).

Hori notes even the "cool" Uruu was relieved to not eat curry and he (Uruu) called the food "delicious".

Hori notes the banknotes Oshida and Ruise have have pots on them and exclaims Oshida's intro as a debt collector was too formal.

Hori calls Takara, who doesn't hesitate to use his money even though he loves it, "cool" and says the scene where Takara does that was emotionally touching.

To the B part!

Hori notes you can now see Sirius's face in the shadows.

Hori calls Ranmaru "cool" for being straightforward (when Ranmaru asks about "carnal relations" (CR translation)).

The documents Emu gets are documents for an aged care home, a real estate contract, a man's photo and a marriage registration.

Hori notes the doors (leading to the Heaven's Room) have a different design based on who created them. (You find, several lines further down from this one, that the mental worlds are called ヘヴンズ空間 or "Heaven's Room".)

Hori notes the name of the enka is Ai no Kanjou, but does not link it.

Hori notes the art style of the Heaven's Room is cubism.

Oh...so the pun in Oshida's name is from 押し出し (oshidashi, to be pushed out of a sumo ring). Fuhen means "inevitable" or "unchanging".

Hori calls the attack Takara uses (with that chest armour) the "nipple drill (LOL)".

The background music after Oshida was defeated gave Hori goosebumps.

Turns out there's also a quota for the "aren't you wrong?" anomalies, as well (e.g. when Oshida denies he was in the wrong in this episode).

Hori also mentions there's merch of the keys.

Takara's pose after yelling "Go to heaven!" is the same one Hori takes in the Ayashiku Get Your Heart music video.

The new lawyer at the end of the episode has fake Kansai-ben.

Hori notes Takara seems to have no intention to make anything aside from curry (LOL).

"あ、なんだフィクションか。ちくしょう、また騙された…ッ！" - "Ah, it was fiction, was it? Damn, we were deceived yet again...!"

"こんなに格好いいキャラクターを演じさせて貰えて、この作品に関わらせて貰えて、堀は本当に幸せ者です。" - "Hori was able to portray this kind of cool character and be affected by the work, so he's really happy." (<- Yes, he's referring to himself in the 3rd person.)

Hori then talks a bit about the Nico Nico Douga screening, including the fact he lost a "staggering" amount of calories after laughing a lot from the comments.

He wants to one day do an (in-person) cheering event where the fans will watch the episodes with the voice actors once again and says, "その日が来る事を心待ちにしながら、今は何より皆様体に気をつけて、いつか必ず光があると信じて、今この時を乗り越えましょう。" ("As we all look forward to that day, let's take care of ourselves and overcome this time [of COVID lockdown], believing that one day there will be light.") <- For those of you coming from the future, this is referring to the fact several large metropolitan areas of Japan are currently under COVID lockdown as I type this, including Tokyo.

Finally, he thanks everyone for cheering on Fairy Ranmaru.

Takara's comment (turns out Takara (Hori) still does comments at the end even when it's his turn): "ま、カレー食っておきゃ間違いないって事やね" - "Well, having to eat curry isn't a bad thing, is it?"

Update: Sorry, seems I can't fix the cut without deleting the entire post...It looks fine in the editor...

Update 2: Seems like the cut fixed itself. Also disambiguated a dot point and added more to a different dotpoint.

Update 3: Fixed the snakebite stuff and disambiguated a dotpoint.

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The synopsis for episode 6 is up. (Spoilers!) The character of the day's name is Chika and she's an office worker in a black company.

The preorder deadline for the Hobby Japan plush Bakkun and the dakimakura covers is the 17th of May 2021.

7 Elevens in Japan have Fairy Ranmaru bromides available for multicopy. See details here.

Here's an ad for Fairy Ranmaru BD/DVD 1 (in Japan). Tanabe's making a funny expression on the thumbnail for it - he finds that embarrassing (but laughs anyway).

The Animage June issue's free space has an illustration contest for Bishonen Tanteidan (Pretty Boy Detective Club) and Fairy Ranmaru, with the Fairy Ranmaru contest's postmark deadline being June 30th 2021. Shouko Nagasawa and Mika Yamamoto will choose the winners. Enter using this form. This issue also has the B2 poster of Homura and Uruu in their fairy forms.

Animedia's June issue (sold on 10th May 2021) has tuxedo Homura and Uruu, plus a "bridal Q & A" about these two with Yoko Kawahara (producer of Boueibu as well as Fairy Ranmaru).

PASH!'s June issue (sold on 10th May 2021) has a Fairy Ranmaru interview with Balletta and Tanabe. There's also a pin-up of Homura and Uruu in their human forms.

Hishida shared these charts regarding the demographics of people singing Ayashiku Get Your Heart and Yousei Aika, plus those singing the songs by 5 to Heaven, at karaoke with the system Joysound. Turns out men and those in the 50 - 59 age range like this stuff the most.

Update: Made the Animage dotpoint less ambiguous.

Update 2: As it turns out, 消印有効 means "postmark deadline". Sorry for the omission.

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Part 2 of this mega update. Sorry if it became really sparse on details...

Can badges, 300 yen = 1 try.

Fairy Ranmaru was trending the day it aired.

New image from Andgy.

Reminder about the OP/ED event on May 1st.

Image from the ED by Shouko Nagasawa.

Non-credit version of the ED.

Articles from Dengeki Online and Mantan Web.

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The next Otasuke Heaven videos (nos. 8 - 10) will be released (or rather..."were", in some cases) from April 6th - 8th at 9 pm (Japanese time). Watch them here, here and here.

Voice Animage has a Fairy Ranmaru article.

The final countdown images are here. The one with the mascots and Ranmaru is from Tomoko Miyakawa, chief animation director for human characters and character designer for the mascot characters, and the other image, with the cast doing the hand sign, is by Shouko Nagasawa, character designer and chief animation director for the human characters. (Both are returning staff from Boueibu and RobiHachi.)

...Fairy Ranmaru airs tonight, in fact, on the day I'm typing this (in terms of Japanese time)! For those in Japan, AT-X will be streaming episode 1 for free (see details below).

Update: That hand sign actually seems to be the Korean heart symbol.

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On top of the poster and interview, a reminder Animage has an illustration contest for the free space in September's issue with Shouko Nagasawa and Mika Yamamoto choosing the winners. The postmark deadline is June 30th 2021. Use this form to apply.

The issue of Animedia sold on June 10th has Fairy Ranmaru content relating to both human and fairy forms. There is also Shakunetsu no Kabaddi content if you're looking for that too.

Video message from "Hori and friends".

New Andgy images.

Thanks for watching ep. 10. Here's a Takara from Yuuki Takano, who did the key frames for the special move bank scenes.

A reminder to preorder the character song album, Heaven's Door, here to get your hands on some hand-signed bromides. It goes on sale on the 16th of June.

Also on the 16th is the sale of DVD/BD 1. See the video for the bonus content here.

Hobby Japan has mouse pads up for preorder. If you buy one, you'll receive a can badge that matches your mousepad. Takara's is a "mune atsu" type, which just means it's extra thick to match his muscles.

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There's so much stuff from the past few days that I have to split this in two...Please bear with me as I get through everything...

The note at the bottom of the 1st page is "This is not how it goes in the anime...". There's a lengthy message from Hishida (director) on this 2nd page (but since there's a lot to get through, I won't translate it now - maybe some other day...).

According to Sakata, there is a character song called "Enka" (艶歌) in the 1st episode.

This image is by the character designer and chief animation director of human characters, Shouko Nagasawa.

Andgy and Nagasawa drew the covers for vol. 1 of the discs, which come out on June 16th. The bonuses include something called "E Fran De Muse (<- romanisation still to be confirmed, because I am waiting a week) Academy After School (1)".

Character song album "HEAVENS DOOR" comes out June 16th and the OST on the 23rd of June. "Airanranran" is the name of one of the songs, presumably Ranmaru's.

Fairy Ranmaru ep. 1 is now on GYAO! and Nico Nico Douga.

The Shibukawa collab for Boueibu is now back on from June 1st - May 31st 2022. Sale of travel plans is scheduled for Apr. 28th.

The Bar F section of the website is now open - it's a blog! Sakata writes the first entry, called "Finally, the anime is starting!"

(Potential spoilers!) The guests in episode 1 were Akari Kito (Eiko), Saki Fujita (Mimi) and Ryota Osaka (Ichiro). See what Kito had to say here.

You can get a sticker with the OST and a CD (DVD for if you get all 6) on Canime.

Here's a non-credit version of the OP.

Hobby Japan is planning some Fairy Ranmaru merch. This includes a Bakkun plush.

Here's an interview with Hishida on Gadget News.

There are dakimakura planned for the quintet. Details about that are coming soon...

The PASH! that was sold on Apr. 9th has a Fairy Ranmaru article. More details here.

Update: Pt 2 here.