Tatami Time Machine Blues anime has officially hit the Disney+ Hotstar streaming platform on Sep 14, 2022. New episodes will be streamed on the platform every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. IST.

The anime will run for 6 episodes, with episode 5 and 6 to release simultaneously on the same day, Oct 12, 2022. The sixth episode will be an anime only original and will only be streamed on Disney+.

Additionally, Tatami Time Machine Blues compilation film will be screened in the Japanese Theatres from Sep 30, 2022. The film will only run for a period of 3 weeks.

The cast members include:

• Shintarō Asanuma: “I”
• Chikara Honda: Tamura-kun
• Hiroyuki Yoshino: Ozu
• Junichi Suwabe: Jōgasaki
• Kazuya Nakai: Higuchi
• Maaya Sakamoto: Akashi
• Setsuji Satoh: Aijima Senpai
• Yuko Kaida: Hanuki

Shingo Natsume (One-Punch Man, Space Dandy, Sonny Boy) is directing the anime at Science SARU, and Makoto Ueda returns as the scriptwriter from The Tatami Galaxy. Yūsuke Nakamura also returns as character designer.

The novel Tatami Time Machine Blues, sequel to The Tatami Galaxy, was published by KADOKAWA in July 2020 as a collaboration work between Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy novel and Makoto Ueda’s Summertime Machine Blues stage play. It is a story about the characters of The Tatami Galaxy going back and forth in the world of Summertime Machine Blues.

Source: ANN