October 2024 will see the release of Studio Nut's original fishing TV anime, Negative Positive Angler.

 October 2024 has been set aside for the release of Negative Positive Angler, an original TV anime about fishing that is being animated by studio NUT (BLUE GIANT). Together with the first teaser image and trailer, they unveiled the primary cast members. The anime's setting, Tokyo Bay, is modelled after real footage that is mixed with animated content in the trailer. It's available for viewing below.

Hiromi Taniguchi (Kurage no Shokudo) is the chief animator and character designer for the Negative Positive Angler anime, while Tomohiro Suzuki (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End) oversees the series composition and script. Yutaka Uemura (The Saga of Tanya the Evil) is the director of the series.

The main cast for the anime includes:

• Mutsuki Iwanaka as Tsunehiro Sasaki
• Fairouz Ai as Hana Ayukawa
• Kaito Ishikawa as Takaaki Tsutsujimori

An original animation with a fishing theme is called Negative Positive Angler. It centres on a young man who has lived a reclusive, depressed existence apart from society, and it tracks how he transforms as a result of his interactions with other people and fishing. The complete synopsis is available below:

 

A college student named Tsunehiro Sasaki, burdened with a large debt, is given only two years to live by his doctor. He spends his days in depression.

One day, while being chased by debt collectors, he falls into the sea and is rescued by a girl named Hana, who loves fishing, and her fishing friends, including Takaki. At Hana’s suggestion, Tsunehiro experiences fishing for the first time in his life and begins to deepen his friendship with the fishing group.

He also starts working part-time at the convenience store where Hana and Takaaki work. Though he struggles with the unfamiliar fishing terminology and the smell of raw bait, he gradually becomes hooked on fishing. The feeling of a catch transmitted to his hands is a sense of living. A life that has been falling and only looking up at the world doesn’t change easily.

What is it that Tsunehiro finds through fishing…?