Wit Studio Launches Stunning 15-Second Anime Shorts for Google Play
Discover INU-OH's Masaaki Yuasa teaming up on 6 captivating shorts about a gamer reborn as an Android phone user—an inventive blend of animation and storytelling.
Wit Studio has announced the production of a short anime series titled "Google Play de Chō Musō?! Tensei Shitara Android User datta" (Becoming Overpowered with Google Play?! Reincarnated as an Android User). This series, created in collaboration with Google Play, will consist of six episodes, each approximately 15 seconds long, released weekly until July 21. The first episode is now available for streaming on Google Play's YouTube channel.
The anime follows a gamer who awakens in the "Google Play World", a realm where gaming skills are highly esteemed. Upon acquiring an Android smartphone, he becomes a target for other gamers.
Main Cast:
- Andō: Voiced by Daiki Yamashita
- Guma: Voiced by Shiori Izawa
- Nekomaru: Voiced by Marina Inoue
Production Team:
- Director: Yasuhiro Akamatsu
- Visual Concepts: Masaaki Yuasa
- Character Design: KURO
- Mechanical Design: E o Kaku PETER
- Art Direction: Tomoaki Okada and Kazuo Nagai
- Color Key Artist: Ayaka Nakamura
- Art Direction: Kunihiko Inaba
- Compositing Cinematographers: Takeru Yokoi, Hiromu Ōshiro, Toshiyuki Yamashita, Tomoya Kamijō, and Takashi Ōde
- Editor: Kasumi Shibata
- Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
- Theme Song: "Insomnia" performed by Eve
For more details, visit Google Play's YouTube channel and their X/Twitter account.