Back in April, one of the most endearing and exciting anime airing on television and streaming online was Gal & Dino. The delightfully quirky and cute anime adaptation of Moriko Mori and Cota Tomimura’s manga of the same name combined multiple visual styles to create a bizarre yet adorable half-hour of television each week. Unfortunately, the promising anime from the same studio and team that brought us Pop Team Epic was only able to run for a few weeks before disaster struck. When COVID-19 began sweeping across Japan, it led to countless anime projects being delayed and postponed, including this very show. The series was forced to stop airing, and many weren’t sure when it would be able to return given the fact that half of each episode consisted of live-action segments that might prove impossible to film for a while yet. Thankfully, all hope is not lost, as the delightful series is set to restart it’s broadcast on October 3rd.
As announced in the 24th issue of Kodansha’s Young Magazine, Gal & Dino will resume airing on Tokyo MX and BS11 on October 3rd. The rebroadcast will start back at episode 1 of the series, meaning that it will be a couple of months until the as of yet unreleased eighth episode hits airwaves and streaming platforms.
Gal to Kyoryu is based on the adorably simple and zany manga of the same name. The story begins with fashionable gyaru Kaede finding a cute blue dinosaur and deciding to make it her new roommate. Together, she and the dinosaur eat junk food, watch TV, and gossip about fashion. The manga was launched by married couple Mori and Tomimura in Kodansha’s Young Magazine in October 2018. The third compiled volume of the series was published by Kodansha last week.
Tomimura has created several other manga series that are known for their honest and inclusive LGBT content, such as the four-panel essay manga Bokutachi LGBT (We are LGBT) and Jitsuroku! Tō-san Densetsu (Reality! Dad’s Legend). Mori, meanwhile, is also responsible for the Sayonara, High School manga that currently runs on Akita Publishing’s Manga Cross website.
Source: Anime News Network
