Hiromu Arakawa's Autobiographical Hyakushō Kizoku Anime's 1st Promo Video Streamed

Tokyo MX began streaming the first promotional video on Friday for the television anime of Hiromu Arakawa's autobiographical manga Hyakushō Kizoku (The Peasant Noble). Shigeru Chiba narrates the below video.

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The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX channel on Friday, July 7 at 9:54 p.m. The cast includes:

• Mutsumi Tamura as Hiromu Arakawa
• Mariko Honda as Ishii-san
• Shigeru Chiba as Oyaji-dono
• Kujira as Okan

Yūtarō Sawada (Inui-san!) is directing the anime at Pie in the sky, as well as penning the scripts and serving as line director. Ayane Matsumoto (Gunma-chan storyboard, episode director, animator) is designing the characters and also serving as animation director and animator. ari is in charge of backgrounds. Minori Yamada is credited for ending animation. Precious tone is composing the music. The Japan Agriculture Group's Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives is credited for supervising the agricultural aspects. FRAM will perform the anime's ending theme song.

The manga follows Arakawa as she worked as a farmer in Hokkaido for seven years before she became a manga creator. The experience eventually informed her work on her Silver Spoon manga, which centers on students of an agricultural school.

Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Daemons of the Shadow Realm) launched the manga in Shinshokan's Unpoko magazine in 2006, and it moved to Shinshokan's Wings magazine in 2009 after Unpoko ceased publication. Arakawa continues to serialize the manga irregularly. Shinshokan published the manga's seventh compiled book volume in October 2021. JManga previously published the manga in English.

Sources: Hyakushō Kizoku anime's website, Comic Natalie