Sentai Filmworks picked up The Comic Artist and His Assistants back in the middle of April and now they’re following through on bringing it to more digital outlets. Through their work with The Anime Network, the series has now premiered on Hulu for fans to check out. It’s also set for Hulu Plus members to get a little more out of it as they can watch it directly on their connected TV sets and other digital devices.. This new spring 2014 anime series is directed by Takeshi Furuta (Tiger & Bunny, Place to Place) with series composition by Aki Itami (Flowers of Evil, Fruits Basket), character design by Hitomi Tsuruta (Gintama, Cyberteam in Akihabara) and animation production by ZEXCS (Say, “I Love You”, Chu-Bra!!).
Plot concept: The life of an artist can be hard: Long, arduous hours working with only your thoughts and assistants to keep you company. In the case of overworked mangaka Aito his attempts to merge the two are so far unsuccessful. His priorities are askew and subjecting his assistants to his fantasies has taken precedent over work. Despite his abuse of power, his assistants are willing to play along. Thankfully, editor Mihari is there to keep him in line, from threatening to fire him to physical punishment.