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Mazenchu Anime Posts Opening Video Narrated by Actress First Summer Uika
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The staff for the television anime of TORCH's Mazenchu character brand announced on Wednesday that actress First Summer Uika is providing the anime's opening narration. The staff also began streaming the anime's opening video with Uika's narration:
＼オープニングムービー公開🍣✨／
— マゼンチュ (@_mazenchu) September 30, 2026
ちがうって、おもしろい。
たべものたちの“おいしい”青春物語が、もうすぐはじまります🌸
ナレーションは #ファーストサマーウイカ さん！
ひと足先に、マゼンチュの世界をのぞいてみてほしいですし🍣
📺10/7(水)より
カンテレ『よ〜いドン！』内で毎週水曜放送… pic.twitter.com/09hLCclONR
Mazenchu is set in a school where all kinds of food can live out their youth and form friendships, rivalries, and bittersweet romances.
The cast includes:
- Obara Rea as Sume, a sushi rice girl
- Sakura Hayashi as Abo, an avocado girl
- Uki Nashiki as Akami, a tuna boy
- Kokoro Kikuchi as Shinko, a pickled vegetable boy
Ebi created the Mazenchu characters. Yūsuke Takase (CG on Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King, Halo Legends, Detroit Metal City) is directing the anime at Studio Nanahoshi. The studio dugout is producing the sound, and Aiin is producing the music. BONJIN is the offline editor. Liberty Animation Studio produced the opening animation. Sayo Kawase is the executive producer, and TORCH is planning and producing the project.
The anime will begin airing on October 7 as the first original anime within Kansai TV's morning news and lifestyle program Yoidon!
Sources: Mazenchu anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
