Kakeru Utsugi (空木かける)’s comedy manga series How to Keep a Mummy (ミイラの飼い方) will be getting an anime adaption in 2018. A few cast members are unveiled today (1st September).
■ Mutsumi Tamura as Sora Kashiwagi
■ Keisuke Komoto as Tazuki Kamiya
■ Himika Akaneya as Asa Motegi
■ Ai Kayano as Kaede Kashiwagi
■ Seiichiro Yamashita as Daichi Tachiaki
The anime is now being produced by TV drama The Full-Time Wife Escapist’s director, Jun Nasuda, at 8-Bit studio. The web comic revolves around high school student Sora Kashiwagi and his little mummy. Sora’s father is an adventurer who travels around the world. One day he receives a package from his father, and it is in fact a little mummy that is clumsy and totally not scary. Sora then takes up the responsibility of “raising” this adorable “pet”.
▲ English localisation cover on Crunchyroll