The Tatami Time Machine Blues

Synopsis

It is August 12th. After the remote control to his boarding house's only air conditioning unit is inadvertently destroyed by spilled cola, "I" devises a plan to return to yesterday in a time machine to recover the remote before it breaks. However, his prankster friend Ozu cannot resist playing with past events, even if it means bringing the universe to the brink of destruction. Now "I" finds himself racing through time to avoid disaster.

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Cast

Shintaro Asanuma

I (voice)

Maaya Sakamoto

Akashi (voice)

Hiroyuki Yoshino

Ozu (voice)

Kazuya Nakai

Master Higuchi (voice)

Yuhko Kaida

Hanuki (voice)

Junichi Suwabe

Jogasaki (voice)

Setsuji Sato

Aijima (voice)

Chikara Honda

Tamura (voice)

Crew

Art

• Fumitaka Akai Art Direction
• Ryoko Takashimizu Assistant Director of Photography
• Mika Nakajima Art Designer

Camera

• Hikari Itoh Director of Photography
• Yoshihiro Sekiya Director of Photography

Directing

• Shingo Natsume Series Director
• Fuga Yamashiro Assistant Director

Editing

• Akari Saito Editor
• Masatoshi Nakano Online Editor
• Ikuya Hirano Online Editor

Production

• Hisashi Ishiwata Executive Producer
• Choi Eun-young Executive Producer
• Hana Sugawara Producer
• Daiji Horiuchi Executive Producer
• Shinichiro Mutaguchi Executive Producer
• Yukiko Takase Executive Producer
• Choi Eun-young Producer
• Katsuya Watanabe Executive Producer
• Noriko Ozaki Producer
• Yasushi Kuwata Executive Producer
• Keiji Ota Executive Producer
• Fumie Takeuchi Producer

Sound

• Takahiro Yamada Theme Song Performance
• Kensuke Kita Theme Song Performance
• Kiyoshi Ijichi Theme Song Performance
• Masafumi Gotoh Theme Song Performance
• Chloe Hyun Theme Song Performance
• Eriko Kimura Sound Director
• Katsuhiro Nakano Sound Effects
• Shizuo Kurahashi Foley Artist
• Hiroaki Ota Sound Mixer
• Michiru Oshima Original Music Composer

Visual Effects

• Nobutake Ito Character Designer
• Mokochan Opening/Ending Animation
• Kenji Zemba Opening/Ending Animation
• Gan Haotian Opening/Ending Animation
• Shun Sakata Opening/Ending Animation
• Asami Murakoshi Opening/Ending Animation
• Ayaka Nakamura Color Designer
• Shoko Nishigaki Character Designer
• Yusuke Nakamura Character Designer

Writing

• Tomihiko Morimi Novel
• Makoto Ueda Series Composition
• Masaaki Yuasa Original Concept

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