Tatsuki Fujimoto's Short Stories Get Anime Project by Various Studios
The Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man collection will be adapted into an anime project, featuring six animation studios from Japan. Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 anime will be broadcast on Prime Video worldwide from November 8, 2025.
Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 - Anime Trailer
Fujimoto wrote the stories from the collection between the ages of 17 and 26. Shueisha published it in Japan in two volumes (October and November 2021). VIZ Media licensed it in English. The first volume, 17–21, includes "A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin' in the Schoolyard," "Sasaki Stopped a Bullet," "Love is Blind," and "Shikaku." The second volume, 22-26, also compiles four titles: "Mermaid Rhapsody," "Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome," "Nayuta of the Prophecy," and "Sisters." The studios participating in the Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 anime are:
- ZEXCS (Diabolik Lovers More,Blood)
- Lapin Track (Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary)
- GRAPH77 (newly established studio under Avex Pictures' FLAGSHIP LINE subsidiary)
- 100studio (The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei)
- Studio Kafka (The Ancient Magus' Bride 2)
- P.A.WORKS (Mayonaka Punch)
Fujimoto, known for his Chainsaw Man manga, commented on the upcoming anime:
I felt uneasy about whether it would be really okay to animate works created during my student days, and worried it might have become a piece that relied entirely on someone else's inspiration.
But, though I haven't seen them yet, I believe they've been turned into proper works because they were made by talented directors.
More details on the staff and cast of the upcoming Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 anime can be found below.
A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin' in the Schoolyard (ZEXCS)
- Director and Screenplay: Seishiro Nagaya
- Character Design: Moaang
- Music: Rei Ishizuka
- Director of Photography: Daisuke Chiba
- Voice Cast: Kensho Ono, Shion Sakurai, Kazuki Ura, Kimiko Saito, Mitsuo Iwata
Sasaki Stopped a Bullet (Lapin Track)
- Director: Nobukage Kimura
- Screenplay: Teruko Utsumi
- Character Design: Naho Kozono
- Music: Keiji Inai
- Director of Photography: Hitoshi Tamura
- Voice Cast: Toshiki Kumagai, Chika Anzai, Yoichi Okano
Love is Blind (Lapin Track)
- Director: Nobuyuki Takeuchi
- Screenplay: Teruko Utsumi
- Character Design: Tomoko Mori
- Music: Yumaguchi Yuma
- Director of Photography: Hitoshi Tamura
- Voice Cast: Shun Horie, Shion Wakayama, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Takahiro Yamamoto, Junichi Suwabe, Mamiko Noto
Shikaku (GRAPH77)
- Director and Screenplay: Naoya Ando
- Character Design: MYOUN
- Music: Kenji Kawai
- Director of Photography: Hideki Kawahara
- Voice Cast: Kana Hanazawa, Tomokazu Sugita
Mermaid Rhapsody (100studio)
- Director: Tetsuaki Watanabe
- Screenplay: Tatsuo Kobayashi
- Character Design: Nozomi Shimazaki
- Music: Rei Ishizuka
- Director of Photography: Teppei Ito
- Voice Cast: Chiaki Kikuta, Eri Yukimura
Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome (Studio Kafka)
- Director and Screenplay: Kazuaki Terasawa
- Character Design: Kohei Tokuoka
- Music: Rei Ishizuka
- Director of Photography: Katsuto Ogawa
- Voice Cast: Yuki Sakakihara, Maki Kawase, Seiichiro Yamashita
Nayuta of the Prophecy (100studio)
- Director and Screenplay: Tetsuaki Watanabe
- Character Design: Hisashi Higashijima
- Music: Kevin Penkin
- Director of Photography: Teppei Ito
- Voice Cast: Hitomi Sasaki, Yohei Matsuoka
Sisters (P.A.WORKS)
- Director: Shu Honma
- Screenplay: Yoko Yonaiyama
- Character Design: Haruka Sagawa
- Music: Masahiro Tokuda
- Director of Photography: Satoshi Namiki
- Voice Cast: Runa Nakashima, Tomo Nakai, Tomohiko Imai
Source: Official Website
©Tatsuki Fujimoto/Shueisha, "Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26" Production Committee
