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Anime Times, Amazon Prime Video’s dedicated anime channel, began streaming the Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada dubs of The Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies, the television anime of late creator Cocoa Fujiwara’s Katsute Mahō Shōjo to Aku wa Tekitai Shiteita. manga, in India on Tuesday. It also added the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society anime on Thursday.
Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies premiered in Japan on July 9. Crunchyroll streamed the anime in India as it aired in Japan. Anime Times’ YouTube channel added the first three episodes of the anime on April 3.
Akiyo Ohashi (The Stranger by the Shore) directed the anime at BONES. Yuniko Ayana (BanG Dream!) was in charge of the script and series composition. Haruko Iizuka (Horimiya) designed the characters. MAYUKO (Cells at Work!) composed the music.
Lezel performed the opening theme song “Mikansei Rendezvous” (Incomplete Rendezvous). Yūki Ono and Mai Nakahara as their characters performed the ending theme song “Itsumo Futari ga Ii ne” (It’s Nice that the Two of Them are Always Together).
Fujiwara debuted the manga in Square Enix’s Gangan Joker magazine in September 2013, but had left the manga unfinished before she died in March 2015. Square Enix published the manga’s third and final compiled book volume in March 2016. Gangan Joker noted that the decision to publish the manga’s third volume was made after consulting Fujiwara’s family.
Yen Press is releasing the manga in English and it describes the story:
She’s a magical girl, sworn to fight for peace, love, and justice. He’s a lieutenant, born into a military family that serves an evil empire. And yet, it was love at first sight…From Inu x Boku S.S. creator Cocoa Fujiwara comes a four-panel comic about hostile enemies who won’t kill (and love) each other!
Fujiwara made her debut with the short story “Calling” in 1999. She later serialized the manga Inu × Boku SS in Gangan Joker from 2009 to 2014. Yen Press publishes the romantic comedy in North America, and the manga inspired the 2012 Inu X Boku Secret Service television anime, which Sentai Filmworks released in North America.
Source: Anime Times’ Instagram account (link 2)
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