Ayana Taketatsu (竹達彩奈) revealed more details new single Hey! Calorie Queen (Hey! カロリーQueen) – jacket covers, coupling track, and bonuses unveiled. Her 8th solo single has tie-up as the ending theme for upcoming anime Dagashi Kashi (だがしかし, Cheap Sweets) plus she’ll voice key character Shidare Hotaru in the comedy anime. Single Hey! Calorie Queen comes on two editions hitting stores January 27th 2015.
She is also one-half of unit petit milady with Aoi Yuuki (悠木 碧) and they just released first album Mille Mercis on December 23rd 2015.
Anime Dagashi Kashi (だがしかし) is adapted from manga by Kotoyama and follows Shikada Kokonotsu who’s family owns a small-town but excellent sweets shop. Kokonotsu wants to be a manga artist and while he has great talent with sweets he has no interest in taking over the family store. Shidare Hotaru is a big-city girl who’s family owns a famous sweets company and becomes motivated to try and convince Kokonotsu to take-over his family sweets shop.
The anime airs on TBS TV in Japan starting January 7th 2016. Outside of Japan providers Daisuki.net and Funimation.com stream. MICHI provides the opening theme with her 2nd single Checkmate?!.
Single Hey! Calorie Queen (Hey! カロリーQueen) comes on two editions. Regular edition has anime themed illustrated jacket cover. Most stores offer First Press photo bonus – image and availability varies by store (animate, Gamers, CDJapan samples),
Anime trailer after the release details.
Ayana Taketatsu – Hey! Calorie Queen – release date January 27th 2015