Media service
Crunchyroll
announced
on Friday that it will stream the
Magical Girl Boy
, the spring television
anime
based on
Icchokusen M?kon
's
Mah? Sh?jo Ore
(
Magical Girl Ore
or literally, I Am a Magical Girl) manga, as it airs in Japan.
Crunchyroll
will stream its co-production worldwide except in Japan and Greater China.
The manga centers on Saki Uno, a high school girl and rookie idol who has a crush on Mohiro, her best friend's older brother. When Mohiro is kidnapped by demons, Saki hastily makes a shady contract to be able to transform into a magical girl, which transforms her body into that of a handsome man.
Itsur? Kawasaki
(
Rental Magica
,
Shining Hearts
,
Tsukiuta. THE ANIMATION
) is directing the anime at
Pierrot+
.
Yukiko Ibe
(
Nanatsuiro Drops
,
Jewelpet Twinkle
,
Onigiri
) is designing the characters.
Ayaka ?hashi
stars in the anime as Saki Uno (pictured left in visual above and below) and
Kaito Ishikawa
plays Saki as a man. Similarly,
Sachika Misawa
and
Wataru Hatano
voices Sakuyo Mikage (pictured right) as a woman and man, respectively.
Aya Hisakawa
plays Saki's mother
Sayori
(pictured below left), and
Kazuya Ichijou
plays Kokoro-chan (below right), the mascot binding Saki and the others under a magical girl contract.
The
cast
also includes: (pictured below from left to right):
Ohashi
performs
the anime's opening theme song "NOISY LOVE POWER☆." STAR ☆ PRINCE, composed of the show's voice actors Toyonaga and Yusa
performs
the ending theme song "Garasu no Ginga" (Galaxy of Glass).
The anime premieres on April 2 on
AT-X
at 10:00 p.m and on
Tokyo MX
the following day. A special preview broadcast of the first and second episodes premieres on March 25 on
AT-X
at 7:30 p.m.
M?kon published the manga in
Fusion Product
's
Comic Be
magazine in 2012.
Fusion Product
published two compiled book volumes for the manga in 2014. The manga received a new serialization in
Comic Be
in June 2014.