Kenji Iwaisawa’s animation studio ROCK’N ROLL MOUNTAIN — known for 100 Meters and ON-GAKU: Our Sound — announced on Thursday that it is producing a short anime adaptation of Akiko Okuda‘s short manga “Rusuban” (House-Sitting).
Screening Details
The short anime will screen for one week at K’s Cinema in Shinjuku, Tokyo, beginning August 1. It will be shown alongside Iwaisawa’s 2010 short anime “Yama”, which was itself adapted from a short manga of the same name by Hiroyuki Ohashi, the creator of the ON-GAKU: Our Sound manga.
Story
Set in August 1987, the story follows a single day in the life of Tokko, a girl left to look after her family’s large house while everyone else is away.
Cast
- Kokoha Tachibana
- Yuka Katō
- Atsuyoshi Miyazaki
- Mitsuho Kanbe
- Aimi Imai
- Akane Katsuki
Staff
Ayumi Yanagisawa, who served as assistant unit director on Iwaisawa’s 100 Meters, makes her solo directorial debut with Rusuban. She is also handling storyboards and editing. Notably, the film will not use rotoscoping — unlike 100 Meters — instead featuring hand-drawn animation produced by the studio’s younger staff members.
- Director / Storyboards / Editor: Ayumi Yanagisawa
- Animation: Yuuka Noguchi, Midori Makino, Miku Akira
- Background Art: Chisato Mansai, Pang Qi
- Director of Photography: Veronica Horeva
- Color Key Artist / Production Desk: Ayame Sekiguchi
- Sound Director: Miyu Katō
- Music: Yasuo Harada
- Sound Effects / Dubbing Mixer: Masaru Usui
- Dialect Supervision and Coaching: Yuka Katō (voice actress)
- Publicity: Mariko Hirai
About the Source Manga
The original “Rusuban” short manga is one of six stories collected in Akiko Okuda’s Shinzō anthology, which was published in July 2019. A story by Okuda also appears in Glaeolia, a collection of indie manga published by Glacier Bay Books.
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