Makoto Ueda, who wrote and supervised the scripts for anime adaptations of Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy and Night is Short, Walk On Girl novels, returns to pen the script for this film.
Yuasa returned to adapt Morimi’s Night is Short, Walk On Girl (Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome) at his Science SARU studio, and the film premiered last April in Japan.
P.A. Works adapted both of Morimi’s The Eccentric Family (Uchōten Kazoku) novels into two television anime seasons in 2013 and 2017.
Madhouse previously adapted Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy (Yojō-Han Shinwa Taikei) novel into a 2010 television anime under director Masaaki Yuasa.