NHK Anime unveiled on Tuesday the main cast, staff, and theme song of the television anime adaptation of Kaoru Fukaya's Yomawari Neko manga. The anime is set to broadcast on March 15, 21, and 28 at midnight on NHK General, with a total of 15 5-minute episodes.

Takayuki Yamada (Neko no Ongaeshi) and Atsumi Tanezaki (Spy x Family) are starring as Heizo Endo and Juro, respectively.

Staff
Director: Kazuma Taketani (Kowabon)
Script: Hiroko Kanesugi (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun)
Music: Kenichi Maeyamada (Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku)
Studio: Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment
Production, Publication: NHK, Sotsu

The theme song is "Jump."

Fukaya began drawing the short slice of life manga on Twitter in October 2015. The manga was later serialized in Kadokawa's ComicWalker from February 2016 to July 2016. Kodansha continued serializing the manga on their Moae platform from March 2017 until October 14 before moving to the blog of Comic Days on October 17. Kadokawa initially shipped the first volume in June 2016. Kodansha re-released the first volume in March 2017 and continued publishing the following volumes. The ninth volume shipped in November 2022.

Yomawari Neko won the Short Work Prize at the 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2017. The manga has over 630,000 cumulative copies in circulation.

Source: Comic Natalie