Shin Oishinbo fills out the Tozai News staff and names its theme songs: Yui Makino opens, Skoop On Somebody closes
Six more voice actors join the 2027 TV anime of Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki's food manga, the first new Oishinbo series since the 1988 adaptation ended. Yui Makino sings the opener "PROMISE ME" and Skoop On Somebody the closer "Akashi."
Two songs now frame the return of the Ultimate Menu. Yui Makino, whose credits include Poputepipikku, sings the opener, "PROMISE ME," and Skoop On Somebody, credited on Bleach, provides the closer, "Akashi," for Shin Oishinbo. The anime's site shared both on Thursday, October 29.
Six more voices came with that update, filling out the newsroom around the leads. Toru Furusawa (Toradora!) plays Hideo Tanimura, and Kosuke Echigoya (Akane-banashi) is Tomio Tomii. Nobuo Tobita takes Taizo Ohara, Hiroshi Naka is Kyoichi Koizumi, Kyo Yaoya plays Kinue Arakawa, and Hiroko Ushida of Liar Game rounds out the group as Mitani. The trio at the top was named in September: Yohei Azakami voices Shiro Yamaoka, Hitomi Sasaki plays Yuko Kurita, and Akio Otsuka takes on Yuzan Kaibara. We covered that casting here.
Everything revolves around the Tozai News. For the paper's centennial, its publishers want an "Ultimate Menu," and the assignment goes to Yamaoka, a jaded reporter with a discerning palate and a deep knowledge of food.
Behind the camera, Kenichi Nishida (Sayounara Ryuusei, Konnichiwa Jinsei) directs at SynergySP and Vega Entertainment. Takahiro Nagano, who worked on Tensei shitara Ken deshita, structures the scripts as series composer, and Nozomi Kawashige (Deatte 5-byou de Battle) draws the characters. The show is slated for 2027, with no month or channel confirmed so far.
Kariya wrote the original comic and Akira Hanasaki drew it, starting in 1983 in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits. It has gathered 111 collected books, the most recent issued in December 2014, and has not resumed since a pause began in May of that year. English-language readers got seven themed compilations from VIZ Media, released between January 2009 and January 2010.
Shin-Ei Animation made the earlier TV version: 136 episodes, broadcast between October 1988 and March 1992. The new show therefore lands about 35 years after that run finished.
