Anime News

Delinquent Wishes Come True in Bucchigiri?! TV Anime in 2024

Aladdin Tomobishi reacts with a mixture of pleasure and mild embarrassment in a scene from the upcoming Bucchigiri?! TV anime.

 

Serious wishes go beyond 1000 nights in Bucchigiri?!, a newly announced original TV anime that mashes up Japanese-style school delinquents and the stories of the classic collection of Middle Eastern folktales, One Thousand and One Nights. The main staff for the series has been revealed, including:

 

  • Original work: Hiroko Utsumi, Taku Kishimoto, MAPPA, Toho Co., Ltd.
  • Director: Hiroko Utsumi
  • Series composition, screenplay: Taku Kishimoto
  • Character design, chief animation director: Takahiro Kagami
  • Assistant character design, chief animation director: Hiroyuki Saita, Kiminori Ito
  • Art director: Kurumi Suzuki
  • Color design: Yukiko Kakita
  • Director of photography: Shinnosuke Katou
  • Editor: Tomoki Nagasaka
  • Music: Michiru Oshima
  • Sound director: Hiromi Kikuta
  • Sound production: dugout
  • Animation producer: Takahiro Ogawa
  • Production: MAPPA

 

 

A teaser visual for the upcoming TV anime Bucchigiri?! featuring artwork of Aladdin Tomobishi and Matakara Asamine dressed in their school uniforms and posing in front of their school at night (accented by a Shinto arch and a magical Eastern palace) while the shadow of a genie looms in the background.

 

RELATED: JUJUTSU KAISEN Season2 Hidden Inventory / Premature Death New Trailer, Shibuya Incident Anime Character Artwork Released

 

The story of Bucchigiri?! follows Aladdin Tomobishi, a young man who becomes embroiled in a battle to see who is strongest after he reunites with his former best friend, Matakara Asamine. Meanwhile, the shadow of a giant genie looms over them…?! Bucchigiri?! is scheduled to broadcast beginning in January of 2024.

 

Source: Comic Natalie

 

A Crunchyroll ad banner featuring the logo for the JUJUTSU KAISEN TV anime.

 

Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.