The story centers on the daily lives of six adult males who become part of the Old Man Idol Project.
By: Nicole S. Castro on March 16, 2022 at 17:46 PHT
A teaser video and key visual have been released for upcoming original anime Eternal Boys, scheduled to air in Fall 2022 on FUJI TV.
The story centers on the daily lives of six adult males who become part of the Old Man Idol Project, a new idol group formed by Manpuku Entertainment Production.
The anime will be produced by LIDENFILMS. The original material was conceptualized by Manpuku Entertainment Production and will be directed by migmi.
King Records will be in charge of the theme song.
The cast is composed of veteran voice actors, namely:
Daisuke Yamanaka (CV: Toshiyuki Morikawa)
Tsuyoshi Imagawa (CV: Daisuke Namikawa)
Kentaro Sanada (CV: Daisuke Hirakawa)
Naoki Ishida (CV: Katsuyuki Konishi)
Haru Asai (CV: Jun Fukuyama)
Makoto Kakizaki (CV: Nozomu Sasaki)
Staff
Original: Manpuku Entertainment Production
Director: migmi
Series composition: Kimiko Ueno
Character draft: ma2
Character design: Seiko Asai
Sound director: Ryo Tanaka
Music: Yukari Hashimoto
Animation production: LIDENFILMS
Production: Eternal Boys Project
In addition to the upcoming anime, a spin-off novel game is already in progress by gaming company coly Inc. A manga adaptation will also begin serialization on Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Gene in the upcoming May 2022 issue to be sold on April 15.
Source: Eternal Boys official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie
NICOLE S. CASTRO
Author
Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.
