Anime The project was first teased as an
April's Fools joke in 2017 under title
April 1st The Animation. It was later confirmed as real in the June issue of
Gakken's
Megami Magazine. Kiseki Himura designed the characters, Atsushi Kobayashi directed the series with screenplay by
Hajime Kamoshida. Hiroyuki Yoshii adapted Kiseki's art into animation. Keisuke Fukunaga produced the series. It aired from October 5 to December 28, 2017, on
AT-X,
Tokyo MX,
TV Kanagawa,
MBS, and
BS Fuji's programming block Anime Guild.
Nagi Yanagi served as music producer as well performed the opening theme titled "Over and Over", while
Karin Isobe, Yuna Yoshino, and
Lynn performed the ending theme "behind".
Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series and streamed it on
Amazon's
Anime Strike service in the U.S. Sentai released the series for home video with an English dub on February 12, 2019.
Muse Communication licensed the series in Southeast Asia and streamed on Muse Asia YouTube channel.
Episodes Novel A serialized novel adaptation of the anime was launched in
Kadokawa's
Da Vinci magazine starting October 2017 issue (released on September 6). The first chapter tells the prologue anime's plot. Atsushi Kobayashi illustrated the cover for the novel.
Web manga A series of two-page-long manga chapters, illustrated by different authors, were published on the anime's official
Twitter account from October 6 to December 10, 2017. A collected volume, which included a special Drama CD, was distributed at
Comiket 93 from December 29–31, 2017. ==References==