{"id":21148,"date":"2010-04-28T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=21148"},"modified":"2010-04-28T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:34:00","slug":"sasurai-afro-tanaka-anime-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/sasurai-afro-tanaka-anime-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasurai Afro Tanaka Anime in Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/news_large_tsuru.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/news_large_tsuru-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"news_large_tsuru\" title=\"news_large_tsuru\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/news_large_tsuru-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/news_large_tsuru-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/news_large_tsuru.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese rock band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrock.jp\/news_main.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tsuru<\/a> has announced plans to collaborate with manga artist Masaharu Noritsuke to develop a short anime based on Noritsuke&#8217;s comedy manga Sasurai Afro Tanaka. Noritsuke&#8217;s gag manga about a an odd schoolboy with a large afro premiered in 2002 as &#8220;Koko Afro Tanaka (High School Afro Tanaka). Its fourth series, &#8220;Sasurai Afro Tanaka,&#8221; (Wandering Afro Tanaka) will premiere next month. The three members of Tsuru are fans of the manga and have composed the song &#8220;Asa ga Kuru mae ni ~Sasurai Version~&#8221; in tribute to the manga. The song will get an anime music video featuring manga protagonist Hiroshi Tanaka.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Asa ga Kuru mae ni ~Sasurai Version~&#8221; single will go on sale in Japan on June 30. Limited first edition copies of the CD will include a bonus afro wig and ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2010-04-27\/tsuru-rock-band-makes-animated-afro-tanaka-music-video\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese rock band Tsuru has announced plans to collaborate with manga artist Masaharu Noritsuke to develop a short anime based on Noritsuke&#8217;s comedy manga Sasurai Afro Tanaka. Noritsuke&#8217;s gag manga about a an odd schoolboy with a large afro premiered in 2002 as &#8220;Koko Afro Tanaka (High School Afro Tanaka). Its fourth series, &#8220;Sasurai Afro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21150,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148\/revisions\/21150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}