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Aho-Girl

Genre Comedy

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“Cute characters, weird gags and lots of bananas!”

Yoshiko is a hopelessly clueless high school girl. Her rock-paper-scissors strategy is “rock.” She somehow gets zeroes on multiple-choice tests. And she has an often-nearly-fatal weakness for bananas. Her devoted friends have no choice but to hang around and make sure nobody takes advantage of her. (Of course, the entertainment value might have something to do with it, too.) Cute characters, weird gags, and lots and lots of bananas!

ABOUT THE SERIES

• Adapted from a four-panel comedy manga, which became a surprise hit in Japan
• Starring popular voice actors Aoi Yuki (ERASED, ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.) and Tomokazu Sugita (Gintama).
• Target audience: Teens and young adults

Kemono Friends

Fantasy, Adventure

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“Cute characters, weird gags and lots of bananas!”

The story takes place in Japari Park, an enormous integrated zoo built somewhere in this world. A mysterious substance found there, called "Sand Star," causes the animals to turn into humanoid beings called "Animal Girls"! These new creatures spend every day peacefully with the zoo's visitors... but after some time, a lost child turns up in the park. The child's attempt to find the way home turns into a great adventure with the Animal Girls!

ABOUT THE SERIES

• Part of the Kemono Friends Project, a multi-media project that included a smartphone game, a comic, anime series, character goods, and more
• The series is a runaway hit in Japan:
  1. It originally launched to middling reviews and led to poor immediate fan reaction to the series. The show struggled to find solid fan reactions, but popularity exploded following the release of episode 4, much to the surprise of the wider anime community, including the show’s staff. Now, it is Winter 2017’s biggest runaway success.
  2. The anime has inspired memes, covers of its OP song and fan artworks.
  3. NHK reported of an increase in the number of visits to zoos rose as a direct result of inspired viewers of Kemono Friends.
• Initial broadcast: Jan to Mar 2017
• Target audience: All ages

Restaurant to Another World

Genre: Fantasy, Food

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In the shopping district near the office street, there lies a cafeteria called "Youshoku no Nekoya" (Western Cuisine Cat Restaurant). It's been open for fifty years and has satisfied various salarymen from nearby offices. Despite it being called a Western cuisine cafeteria, it also provides other varieties of menus. For the people of this certain world, it's their one-and-only special cafeteria.

There is, however, one secret to "Nekoya". The cafeteria is closed to the public every Saturday in order to make way for special guests. When a bell rings, customers from different places of birth and races appear who ask for mysterious and delicious dishes. They are actually the same dishes served to the salarymen, but these special guests find them to be more exotic than to what they are used to. As the cafeteria aims to serve masterpieces, it is usually referred as "Isekai Shokudou."

And so, the bell rings again this week.

ABOUT THE SERIES

• Adapted from a light novel by author Junpei Inuzuka.
• #3 Highest Rated Summer 2017 series on Anichart.
• Features a strong cast of voice actors: Junichi Suwabe (Yuri!!! on Ice, Bungo Stray Dogs, ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.), Sumire Uesaka (KanColle, Myriad Colors Phantom World, The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls), Saori Onishi (Sword Oratoria, DanMachi, Saekano) and more.
• Target audience: Teens and young adults