Tonari No Seki
Media Factory is keeping it short and sweet when it comes to promoting the new series Tonari no Seki-kun as we get two new commercials for it that clock in under 20 seconds each yet manage to be cute and fun. The series is scheduled to premier eon TV Tokyo on January 5th, 2014 at 2:02am for a fifteen minute run time. The series, based on the manga of the same name by Takuma Morishige, is set for a Winter 2014 broadcast with Shinei Animation producing the work. In its manga form, Tonari no Seki-kun ran in the seinen magazine Comic Flapper, a Media Factory property, and began in 2010 with four volumes released so far. The series has some solid numbers so far as over a million copies have been sold as of this past spring in Japan. Yuji Mutoh will be directing while Masae Otake will be both character designer and animation director.
Plot concept: These are the observations of Rumi Yokoi of her classmate, Seki Toshinari, from her point of view as he plays incredibly elaborate games at his desk (such as excavating fossils from a slab of dirt on his desk, petting cats, crocheting, etc.) and somehow never getting caught.