(CR) Astro Note [Spring 2024] Anticipation

[Stark700]

> Shinji Takamatsu directs the series at Telecom Animation Film

Coming right out of CCXP, a brand-new sci-fi romantic comedy anime is coming to you in the new year! Astro Note, featuring original character designs by Eisaku Kubonouchi, will premiere in April 2024 and stream on Crunchyroll as it airs in Japan! Read on for all the details about the newly announced series.


Release Date: April 2024

Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS

Synopsis:

Takumi, a gifted chef, was just let go from his job. He lands a gig at an old boarding house called Astro-sou, but hesitates to accept after learning he must also live there full-time. That is until he meets the beautiful and charming caretaker, Mira, and he’s sold. The two begin to work together and their connection deepens. But Mira has a secret: she isn’t from this world!

Crunchyroll article

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/ann...oll-april-2024

[Guardian Enzo]

That sounds enough like a 90's anime comedy for Takamatsu Shinji to make sense.

[MeoTwister5]

This almost sounds like an Akamatsu Ken thing.

[Frontier]

Looks like Maison Ikkoku with a dash of Urusei Yatsura, which is even funnier because Shinobu (Maaya Uchida) is voicing the alien love interest .

This looks cute and fun !

[Last Sinner]

Hope it's more like an adults version of Penguin Highway rather than aforementioned comparisons, but given the director's previous work, I suspect major shenanigans so I suspect the later.

[Stark700]

New PV

[Frontier]

Junichi Suwabe as an alien poodle, Jun Fukuyama as the alien love rival, Rie Kugimiya as a shota, underground idol, and a female admirer (possibly stalker)...well, that's a cast of characters that can rival Maison Ikokku .

[stray]

I ended up watching the leaked episode and... I don't really know if I'm feeling it. Its definitely going to be zany.

[Frontier]

Spoiler:

What better way to start off a romcom than an epic space battle with a woman in a skintight pilot suit ?

Miyasaka Takumi is a chef looking for a job voiced by Soma Saito who gets a Meet Cute with a beautiful landlady of a sharehouse named Mira voiced by Maaya Uchida and the pair hit it off immediately...though her "dog" of course hates him .

And no sharehouse anime would be complete without a colorful cast of characters, like the mysterious but affable elderly novelist, the aspiring indie idol who sings about punching people (and probably would punch you if you tick her off enough), the jobless bum and his studious son (did not have Tomokazu Sugita and Rie Kugimiya as father and son on my bingo card), and...is that Sadako !?

Nothing unites tenants more than the landlady's terrible cooking and wanting to hire someone who can actually cook...and getting to spend more time with the landlady sure sweetens the deal for Miyasaka .

Mira doesn't look like she's been in prison, but she's definitely mysterious...though that doesn't get in the way of her and Miyasaka's first date out on the town! They even use the ED sung by their VA's !

Oh no, it's Maison Ikoku because Mira is a widow! Only...nope, it's more Urusei Yatsura/Waiting for Summer because she's secretly an alien princess on the hunt for a key to save her planet and rule over it...and her poodle is voiced by Junichi Suwabe! And they're being watched !

The OP is really fun and stylish, with a lot of retro romcom energy injected into it !

[grecefar]

it was fun but what buyed me was the sugita guy and the idol, funny duo.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

Two thumbs up from me
It wasn't super, super funny or anything, but it was solid and had an energetic OP, had good ol' VAs, just generally fun to watch
And as an original anime, it will likely conclude the story. Likely, not always, but this looks like the type of anime that has an idea where it wants to go

[Guardian Enzo]

Wow, could that have tried any harder to channel Rumiko?

[Alchemist007]

It's like Maison Ikkoku x Snack Basue. The eating animation is funny.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

Wow, could that have tried any harder to channel Rumiko?

It feels almost self-aware that they have Maaya Uchida playing the alien girlfriend this time around .