Directed by Kōtarō Ishidate Licensed by Crunchyroll Original run July 6, 2016 – present First episode date 7 July 2016 Director Kotaro Ishidate | Studio Bouncy Original network Tokyo MX, Sun TV Episodes 11 Network Sun Television | |
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Naria Girls known in Japan as Mahō Shōjo? Naria Girls (魔法少女? なりあ☆がーるず, Mahō Shōjo? Naria☆Garuzu, "Magical Girl? Naria Girls") is a Japanese anime television series produced by Bouncy studio. The series is marketed as a "user participation" anime by its producers. The name of the series makes use of a pun; "Nariagaru" which means "rising in the world".
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Plot
Urara, Hanabi, and Inaho aims to become popular throughout japan by rendering themselves in the anime medium. They decides that the theme of their anime would be magical girls in order to appeal to a wide demographic; from children to adults. The three broadcast their one-cour magical girl anime to the public.
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Production
Naria Girls was produced by the Bouncy, an animation studio, with the use of Kigurumi Live Animator KiLA, a real-time live animation software. The software was used to animate the CGI-rendered characters real-time through motion capture. Okazu Misoyama was responsible for the character design of the series.
Anime
Naria Girls premiered in Japan on July 6, 2016 on Tokyo MX with the series also broadcast on Sun TV as well as streamed in NicoNico service in Japan.
The theme song of the series entitled "We Are Naria ☆ Girls" (We are なりあ☆がーるず) was performed by Seria Fukagawa, Aoi Koga, and Yūki Kuwahara, the three main cast. Hajime who also performs the theme song was responsible for the arrangement of the song and Jun'ichi Inoue was behind the composition.
Crunchyroll announced in July 2016 that it has acquired rights to stream the anime with stream dates and regional availability yet to be disclosed.