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Crunchyroll to Stream Locodol Original Video Anime Episode
posted on by Egan Loo
Media distribution service Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will stream an original video anime based on Kōtarō Kosugi's Futsū no Joshikōsei ga Locodol Yattemita four-panel manga. The stream will be available at 1:00 a.m. EST on Saturday worldwide except in Asia. Crunchyroll did not specify which of the two video anime projects it will stream. However, the second project aired as a Christmas special on December 24 in Japan, and Crunchyroll streamed the first one last December.
In the original manga's story, high school girl Nanako became her town's local idol at the request of her uncle. She and her upperclassman Yukari, a girl who seems perfect but ends up being airheaded, both become idols of their provincial area. They get interviewed (by the town's shopping center), go on television (low-budget cable), and hold concerts (on the roof of the department store). The girls' salaries come from the town's taxes.
The four-panel series inspired the 12-episode Locodol television anime series that premiered in July 2014. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. The franchise's first OVA episode was bundled with the first Blu-ray Disc and DVD volume in Japan in September 2014.
Sentai Filmworks will release the TV anime series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on January 19, and retailer Right Stuf lists that the release will include 13 episodes.
Kosugi began serializing the manga in Ichijinsha's Manga 4-Koma Palette magazine in 2011, and Ichijinsha published the fourth volume on July 22.
