Five more anime simulcasts announced for HIDIVE

It’s almost time for the Spring 2023 anime season, and HIDIVE has announced five more titles in its simulcast schedule. In April, you will be able to watch Expansion aegis alice gear, Sleepless after school, Otaku elf, TOKYO MEW MEW NEW (season 2) and TOO NICE CRISIS. Speaking of the new additions, John Ledfordthe President of HIDIVE, declared:

We are thrilled to bring this exciting slate of new simulcast series to HIDIVE this spring. From comedy and fantasy to drama and sci-fi, HIDIVE will host some of the best shōnen, shōjo, and seinen anime premiering in Japan next season. Fans won’t want to miss a minute.

Can’t wait to stream these anime titles simulcast on HIDIVE?

• Expansion aegis alice gear

  • Director: Hirokazu Hanai

  • Writer: Kenji Sugihara

  • Study: NOMADS

Centuries ago, humanity abandoned planet Earth after the Deputy, a race of mechanical aliens, drove them from their home to a life adrift in space. Now resigned to spaceships forged with pieces of the Earth’s shattered moon, the last hope for humanity is in the hands of the Actresses, young women born with the ability to handle the only weapons that can harm Vice: Alice Gears, mechanical suits that they can finally turn the tide against the alien incursion.

Based on the mecha alice gear aegis mobile game developed by Pyramid and published by COLOPL, Inc. in January 2018.

• Sleepless after school

  • Director: Yuuki Ikeda

  • Writer: Rintarou Ikeda

  • Studio: LIDENFILMS

Ganta Nakami is a high school student who suffers from insomnia. One day she meets Isaki Magari, a girl with the same condition. A strange, but special relationship forms as they share a secret and catch up on sleep in their school’s abandoned observatory…

Based on the seinen drama manga series by Makoto Ojiro which has been serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits Weekly since 2019.

• Otaku elf

  • Director: Takebumi Anzai

  • Writer: Shogo Yasukawa

  • Workshop: C2C

Takamimi Shrine has an unusual resident: Elda, an ancient elf obsessed with video games! The shrine’s teenage assistant, Koito Koganei, keeps this lonely otaku well stocked with energy drinks and junk food. Even though she loves her games 100%, Elda has duties to perform and Koganei is bound and determined to make this otaku elf fulfill them! It’ll just take an offer or two to bribe… er, we mean to get Elda to put her new game aside…

Based on the shōnen comedy manga series by Akihiko Higuchi which has been serialized in Kodansha’s Shōnen Magazine Edge since 2019.

• TOKYO MEW MEW NEW (Season 2)

  • Director: Takahiro Natori

  • Writer: Yuka Yamada

  • Studio: Yumeta Co./graphics

Project μ(Mew) scientists use the DNA of endangered species to create a team of heroines with incredible abilities. Armed with the abilities of an Iriomote cat, Ichigo must team up with other Mew Mew girls to repel an alien incursion.

Based on the shōjo manga series written by Reiko Yoshida and illustrated by Mia Ikumi which was serialized in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi from 2000 to 2003.

• TOO NICE CRISIS

  • Director: Jun Hatori

  • Writer: Aya Satsuki

  • Study: SynergySP

Invasive alien Liza Luna wants nothing more than to destroy planet Earth…after sightseeing, earlier. But her travels soon lead her to a cat café, where the furry felines inside her invade her heart just like Liza invaded Earth! Destroying the world won’t be so easy now that she’s discovered the joys of kittens…

Based on the shōnen comedy manga series by Mitsuru Kido which has been serialized in Shueisha’s Jump Square since 2019.