Staff of 'Haifuri' TV Anime Announced for Spring 2016 Broadcast

by Stark700
Jan 26, 2016 6:54 PM | 19 Comments

The March 2016 issue of Comic Alive magazine, which goes on sale today, has revealed that the previously announced original TV anime Haifuri will air from April 2016. A key visual was also revealed with character designs from the anime.

Staff
Director: Yuu Nobuta (Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai)
Series Composition, Script: Reiko Yoshida (Tamako Market)
Original Character Design: Atto (Non Non Biyori)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Naoto Nakamura (Miss Monochrome: The Animation)
Color Design: Hitomi Ikeda (Sekkou Boys)
Studio: Production IMS

Haifuri was first announced in the October 2015 issue of Comic Alive in collaboration with the mangaka of Non Non Biyori. A manga adaptation drawn by Kanari Abe has been serializing since the magazine's December 2015 issue. The series is set in an all-girls school whose students learn skills in order to protect the ocean.

A CD featuring the character song "Watashitachi Kinenbi" will go on sale on April 6. The single is listed with a retail price of 1,000 yen plus tax.

Source: Official blog

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They also credit Takaaki Suzuki—the military advisor for Girls und Panzer, and one of the writers for Strike Witches—with the original concept. So this is sounding good.

By the way, when staff members have had major roles on popular full-length series, it'd be better to name those roles by their names rather than recent short series—Toaru Kagaku no Railgun and Mekakucity Actors for Nakamura, Ristorante Paradiso and Strike Witches for Ikeda.

Feb 27, 2016 7:45 AM by Miporin

Looks nice, might watch.

Feb 1, 2016 11:18 PM by Kotarou_

vikki7783 said:

Stark700 said:
Color Design: Hitomi Ikeda (Sekkou Boys)

I'm in. _______________________________________________

ALL ABOARD THE ART HYPE TRAIN!!!

But ye, sounds cool. Spring is looking good so far, definitely gonna give this a watch.

Jan 27, 2016 11:16 PM by Snappynator

looks like another one of those sol shows where cute girls do cute things, and looks like this time its protecting the ocean. not expecting anything to come from the show but will watch

Jan 27, 2016 12:35 PM by DanTheAnimeFan

>IMS
>that cover
Ohh boy. That promo image a while back sure was misleading, huh?

I guess I'll have to watch this though... Reiko Yoshida is writing it. ;_;

Jan 27, 2016 6:57 AM by Paulo27

Will check this one out when it comes out.

Jan 27, 2016 5:11 AM by Chibi-Alice

Yeah, I was considering watching this, but I guess I won't after all.

Jan 26, 2016 10:29 PM by Atavistic

This seems very much interesting, and the director if I remember he's new into it, so I might go and see how it plays out.

This might turn into a nice SoL.

Jan 26, 2016 8:53 PM by removed-user

That's cute, hopefully it's not too preachy and my goodness I didn't expect a post apocalyptic world out of this.

Jan 26, 2016 8:37 PM by Hoppy

This is gonna be my relaxing SOL.

Jan 26, 2016 8:03 PM by Gridley

Looks really good. Will watch!

Jan 26, 2016 7:55 PM by SecretDinosaur

Looks interesting, will watch most likely.

Jan 26, 2016 7:44 PM by DJAnime

Finally some update about this. Daitoshokan might be a miss for this director so I just hope it will be worth it considering the scriptwriter/series composition for this one.

Jan 26, 2016 7:33 PM by mlcdl

*looks at picture*

Why not? :)

Jan 26, 2016 7:28 PM by Rinrinka

Stark700 said:

Series Composition, Script: Reiko Yoshida (Tamako Market)

Have my trust on this one since she's involved in so many SOL shows including Aria and Non Non

Jan 26, 2016 7:22 PM by Mizunashi

Stark700 said:
Color Design: Hitomi Ikeda (Sekkou Boys)

I'm in. _______________________________________________

Jan 26, 2016 7:15 PM by toblynaruto

Oh yeah, i remember that.
Well, another one for spring !
The director seems pretty new and ... the studio tho .... ergh.
Well, at least the scriptwriter has done a lot of great slice of life, lets hope shes doing a good job !

Jan 26, 2016 7:15 PM by DatRandomDude

Director: Yuu Nobuta (Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai). This thing hurts :'(

Jan 26, 2016 6:59 PM by santk

Looking forward to this. I hope it has a familiar feel that Non Non Biyori did.

Jan 26, 2016 6:59 PM by Stark700