Manga 'Hoshi no Samidare' Gets TV Anime in Summer 2022

by Vindstot
Jan 23, 2022 11:00 PM | 67 Comments

A television anime adaptation of Satoshi Mizukami's Hoshi no Samidare (Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer) manga was announced by publisher Shounen Gahousha on Monday, scheduled for a Summer 2022 airing. Digital distribution company My Theater D.D. simultaneously opened an official website, revealing a teaser visual (pictured) and the main staff.

Nobuaki Nakanishi (Mahoujin Guruguru, Myself; Yourself episode director) is helming the anime. Original creator Satoshi Mizukami (Planet With) and Yuuichirou Momose (Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?, Infinite Dendrogram) are in charge of the series composition.

Synopsis
One day, college student Yuuhi Amamiya is approached by talking lizard Sir Noi Crezant. Crezant immediately launches into a fantastical story: the powerful mage Animus intends to destroy the earth with his biscuit hammer, a huge contraption looming high in earth's orbit. Earth's only hope lies with the princess and her Beast Knights, whose task is to protect the princess and defeat Animus.

Yuuhi is chosen as the Lizard Beast Knight, and despite his misgivings, is quickly forced to defend himself from a golem created by the mage. He is saved by his neighbor, the princess Asahina Samidare, and swears loyalty to her. However, the princess does not intend to save the earth at all. She lets Yuuhi in on her real motivations: to prevent Animus from destroying the earth, only to then annihilate the planet by her own hand. The pair continue to fight off attacks by Animus's golems while the remaining Beast Knights are slowly being gathered and learning to use their powers. But Yuuhi will have to decide for himself whether to go along with Asahina's plans, whom he is getting close to, or to save the earth. In the process, he must also confront his true self, and determine where his loyalties truly lie. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

The adventure comedy manga ran in Young King OURs between June 2005 and August 2010. Shounen Gahousha published the manga in ten volumes from January 2006 to November 2010.

JManga began publishing the manga in English in February 2012 and released five volumes before going defunct in May 2013. Seven Seas Entertainment re-licensed the manga in November that year and published it in 2-in-1 omnibus volumes between November 2014 and November 2015. Crunchyroll and Book☆Walker Global added the manga to their catalog in September 2014 and November 2015.

Official site: https://hoshinosamidare.jp/
Book☆Walker special page: https://bookwalker.jp/series/4674/

Source: Comic Natalie

Hoshi no Samidare on MAL

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MichaelJackson said:

Fluoxetine_50mg said:
Dropped this awhile ago, 8 chapters in. Just didn't impress me at all. Hopefully an adaptation can.

That was the first manga I dropped, but I heard it gets good on volume 11.

You mean Volume 1.

May 20, 2022 7:52 PM by TsukuyomiREKT

Haven't finished the manga yet, but if the anime's as wild and fascinating as Planet With, I'll be all for it.

Feb 13, 2022 7:23 PM by MakkuroKemuri

Fluoxetine_50mg said:
Dropped this awhile ago, 8 chapters in. Just didn't impress me at all. Hopefully an adaptation can.

That was the first manga I dropped, but I heard it gets good on volume 11.

Feb 1, 2022 11:09 PM by MichaelJackson

Not a big fan of Mizukami but I know a rl friend who totally is into his stuff. Will likely be butchered but we're just glad it's finally happening. Especially after the disappointment that was Planet With.

Jan 28, 2022 9:30 AM by Edocchi

I m very interested on this, the manga is on my plan to read for a long time, and I do feel like it will be a very unique one to read, getting an anime adaptation so many years later is kinda neat.

Jan 27, 2022 1:53 PM by Playcool

Used to be a meme that the Lucifer and the Buiscuit Hammer will never get an anime, and fake anime youtube videos were trying to imitate an anime and confuse people. And if it will get an anime, it will be only when the Apocalypse begins.

I'm glad I didn't kill myself to see the Apocalypse in its full glory. ;_;

Jan 27, 2022 8:49 AM by Yoelitos

Dayum I read this one a long time ago.

Hopefully it doesn't get absolutely butchered. Maybe I should give it a reread sometimes.

Jan 27, 2022 1:16 AM by Thai777

Dropped this awhile ago, 8 chapters in. Just didn't impress me at all. Hopefully an adaptation can.

Jan 26, 2022 10:44 AM by Femboy_Hooters

Finally, after a long wait like vinland saga and parasyte series adaption.

Jan 26, 2022 8:29 AM by MrFrostbite

heard the manga is good,definetely gonna check this out

Jan 26, 2022 7:29 AM by Rndmguypassingby

Hmm let's check out

Jan 26, 2022 5:42 AM by removed-user

Read the manga a month ago, this announcement truly came out of nowhere. If they do a proper adaptation this will be very good!

Jan 26, 2022 4:10 AM by MorzGT

holy shit... . .. .

Jan 26, 2022 12:03 AM by thenthukpa

What the fuck? Never expected to see this announcement, ever. I hope they make a good adaptation.

Jan 25, 2022 12:01 PM by Kami-Koto

Satoshi Mizukami works are like fine art, though the adaptations can be another thing a.k.a Planet With.

Meanwhile we're still here awaiting Spirit Circle's adaptation...

Jan 25, 2022 8:11 AM by KANLen09

Seriously? Never saw this coming. I’ve only found like a maximum of 5 videos talking about it on YouTube. I’ve hardly heard anyone talk about it (though it might be more well known in Japan). It started more than 15 years ago. It’s already completed and has been for more than a decade. How on earth is it getting an anime? I’m not complaining. It’s a 10/10. I’m just surprised. I hope it adapts the entire thing. I REALLY hope it’s well done.

Seriously, this was on my list of “manga I’d barely heard of but read on a whim and found them to be masterpieces” along with Helck and Dorohedoro (at least when I first read it).

Jan 25, 2022 1:18 AM by Frosteek

A surprise, but a welcome one. Hope it's 2 cours and a good studio.

After this, Pokemon Special/Adventure and Onani Master Kurosawa were my pipe dreams of adaptation. But I guess I have to settle down with Pokemon: Origins, who was not half bad, for the first.

Jan 24, 2022 5:28 PM by Fabris

Lmao, whatever happened to the author not wanting to adapt this to anime form without The Pillows doing the OST? Was hoping that was the impetus coz that is some cathartic buildup to my favorite manga getting an anime now, after all these freaking years!

WOOOOOOOYEAAHBABYYYY.webm

Jan 24, 2022 2:15 PM by SeaJaeger

AWorldW-OShrimp said:

RobertBobert said:
So, nowadays anything gets adapted, even old titles?

If you look at the yearly stats shared by the anime industry, anime has grown massively in the past decade, thanks in particular to explosive growth in international markets (esp. the US and China). Many more series are being made now than was the case a decade ago. When there's a lot more cash sloshing around in the market and a lot more stuff getting made, stuff like this may happen.

grandy_UiD said:

So much so, that I still can hardly believe it's true. I've dreamed about this for literally over a decade (holy shit I'm old) and now it's supposed to actually happen? It's surreal.

Same! I literally never thought we'd see the day.

Well, I don't mind, the main thing is that these titles are interesting to me.

Jan 24, 2022 1:21 PM by RobertBobert

Wow. I read some of this manga a while ago (never finished it, but I probably will now), and thought that it would make a pretty good anime, but I didn’t think it would happen. I am very hyped.

Jan 24, 2022 12:36 PM by SebCyrSC2000

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