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Yumemiru, Anime "on-chan" - Hokkaidou Power Gagyu!

Originally Posted by Siegel Clyne

Yumemiru, Anime "on-chan" Animated Television Series
Broadcast Starting Date: Friday, January 18, 2008
Airs Every Friday, 7:54ampm-8:00ampm
Broadcaster: HTB (Hokkaido TV)

Cast & Staff

Cast
on-chan: Tanaka Rie
ok-chan: Konno Hiromi
no-chan: Hirai Keiji
tenko-chan/guchi: Kaneda Tomoko

Staff
Director: Katou Taka
Script/Teleplay/Scenario: Kitaki Rima, Higuchi Tatsuto
Theme Song: "Yumemiru, Chikara" by OILMAN
Music: Sorai Atsufumi (JOEDOWN)
Music Cooperation: yumechika records
Animation Production: Egg
Production: HTB (Hokkaido TV)

Hokkaido TV is a network affiliate of tv asahi.

On-chan is the popular mascot character of HTB (Hokkaido Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd.), adored not only in Hokkaido, but throughout Japan.

HTB produced Yumemiru, Anime "on-chan"'s predecessor, On-chan, Yume Power Daibouken! (On-chan, Dream Power Adventure!). In this earlier, original animation version, Japanese mainstream celebrity Shinohara Tomoe voiced the lead role, on-chan, while Araki Kae, perhaps best known as Yuuki Miaka in Fushigi Yuugi.

According to this post on a BS11 anime thread at 2ch...

At the HTB (Hokkaido Broadcasting System, Co., Ltd.) Booth at the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) 2009, leaflets announce that the Yumemiru, Anime "on-chan" anime will begin airing on the free-to-air digital broadcasting satellite platform BS-11 across Japan next month:

1) 2009/04/09- : Thursdays, 24:25-, Japan Time (Fridays, 12:25am-, Japan Time)

2) 2009/04/12- : Sundays, 16:55-, Japan Time (Sundays, 4:55pm-, Japan Time)

Edit: Soon after I wrote this post, in her 2009/03/21 entry on her blog, Tanaka Rie confirmed the above broadcast schedule for Yumemiru, Anime "on-chan" on BS 11. She also announced that it will begin airing on the free-to-air digital broadcasting satellite platform BS Asahi across Japan next month:

1) 2009/04/06- : Mondays, 23:00-, Japan Time (Mondays, 11:00pm-, Japan Time)

There is no indication yet whether this nationwide broadcast in Japan of Yumemiru, Anime "on-chan" will consist of the original 26-episode, 5-minute television anime series which aired locally on HTB in Hokkaido last year, new episodes, or both.

Tanaka Rie mentioned in her blog a few weeks ago that it has been a while since she has played the role of a young person or a young child.

Other than Kujou Hikari aka Shiny Luminous in the Pretty Cure All Stars DX movie currently showing in theaters throughout Japan, could it be on-chan?

The popular HTB mascot on-chan made his debut back in 1997; I even saw the live version of on-chan on a Japanese language program from Japan earlier this year on local television, Channel 18 (KSCI-TV), in Southern California. The girlfriend of on-chan (who is yellow) is ok-chan (who is pink).

The link to the Englsh web page for the HTB Booth at the Tokyo International Fair 2009, which includes images of on-chan and his pals, follows below.

http://www.tokyoanime.jp/event/view_...php?l=en&id=68

P.S. According to Variety, an unnamed block of Fox programming, including American Idol, will also begin airing on BS-11 across Japan next month.

Imagine that... on-chan and Simon Cowell together on the same TV station.