Five More Anime Simulcasts Announced for HIDIVE

We are almost time for the Spring 2023 anime season and HIDIVE has announced five more titles on their simulcast schedule. In April, you will be able to watch alice gear aegis Expansion, Insomniacs after school, Otaku Elf, TOKYO MEW MEW NEW (Season 2), and TOO CUTE CRISIS. Talking about the new additions, John Ledford, the President of HIDIVE, said:

We’re thrilled to bring this exciting slate of new simulcast series to HIDIVE this spring. From comedy and fantasy to drama and sci-fi, HIDIVE will be home to some of the best shōnen, shōjo and seinen anime premiering in Japan next season. Fans will not want to miss a minute of it.

Are you excited to stream these simulcast anime titles at HIDIVE?

• alice gear aegis Expansion

  • Director: Hirokazu Hanai

  • Writer: Kenji Sugihara

  • Studio: NOMAD

Centuries ago, mankind abandoned planet Earth after the Vice, a race of mechanical aliens, drove them from their home into a life adrift in space. Now resigned to starships forged of pieces of Earth’s shattered moon, the final hope for humanity lies in the hands of Actresses, young women born with the ability to wield the only weapons that can harm the Vice: Alice Gears, mechanical suits that can finally turn the tide against the alien incursion.

Based on the mecha mobile game alice gear aegis developed by Pyramid and published by COLOPL, Inc. in January 2018.

• Insomniacs after school

  • Director: Yuuki Ikeda

  • Writer: Rintarou Ikeda

  • Studio: LIDENFILMS

Ganta Nakami is a high school student who suffers from insomnia. One day, he meets Isaki Magari, a girl with the same condition. A strange, but special relationship forms as they share a secret and catch up on their sleep in their school’s abandoned observatory…

Based on the seinen drama manga series by Makoto Ojiro that has been serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits Weekly since 2019.

• Otaku Elf

  • Director: Takebumi Anzai

  • Writer: Shōgo Yasukawa

  • Studio: C2C

Takamimi Shrine has an unusual resident – Elda, an ancient elf who’s obsessed with video games! The shrine’s teenage attendant, Koito Koganei, keeps this reclusive otaku well supplied with energy drinks and junk food. Even though she loves 100%-ing her games, Elda has duties to attend to, and Koganei is bound and determined to make this otaku elf fulfill them! It’ll just take an offering or two to bribe—um, we mean convince Elda to put down her new game…

Based on the shōnen comedy manga series by Akihiko Higuchi that has been serialized in Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine Edge since 2019.

• TOKYO MEW MEW NEW (Season 2)

  • Director: Takahiro Natori

  • Writer: Yuka Yamada

  • Studio: Yumeta Co./ graphinica

The scientists of the μ(Mew) Project use DNA of endangered species to create a team of heroines imbued with amazing abilities. Armed with the skills of an Iriomote cat, Ichigo must band together with other Mew Mew girls to repel an alien incursion.

Based on the shōjo manga series written by Reiko Yoshida and illustrated by Mia Ikumi that was serialized in Kodansha's Nakayoshi from 2000-2003.

• TOO CUTE CRISIS

  • Director: Jun Hatori

  • Writer: Aya Satsuki

  • Studio: SynergySP

Invading alien Liza Luna wants nothing more than to destroy planet Earth... after she gets in a little sightseeing, first. But her travels soon take her into a cat café, where the furry felines inside invade her heart just as surely as Liza invaded Earth! Destroying the world won’t be so easy now that she’s discovered the joys of kitty cats...

Based on the shōnen comedy manga series by Mitsuru Kido that has been serialized in Shueisha's Jump Square since 2019.