Subaru Kimura and Shinnosuke Tokudome feat. Tomokazu Sugita -- Dancing to Night ~ Kimi e Saitan Warp Kouro（君への最短ワープ航路）

It is indeed Easter Monday and so it seems rather appropriate the above still image for the video has a bunny. Yesterday was the usual anime-and-food outing so with the new Spring 2019 season upon us, I got to see quite a few fresh shows including the heartwarming baseball-themed "Hachi-gatsu no Cinderella Nine"（八月のシンデレラナイン...The Cinderella Nine of August）, the mystical horror-adventure "Kimetsu no Yaiba"（鬼滅の刃...Demon Slayer）, and the sequel to "One Punch Man".

Another new anime is "RobiHachi" which my anime buddy has described as a mix between "Ixion Saga" and "Space Dandy". I could surely see the comparisons with the latter show but I also view it as another in the long line of squabbling buddy road trip features going all the way back to Hope and Crosby. I've enjoyed these future-based anime series, and anime can certainly make them as gritty or as day-glo as they can. "RobiHachi" has been OK so far although I do agree with one commenter that the humour may not be to all tastes. That first episode just seemed to have one long never-ending scene of Robby and Hatchi bickering before things finally got started with the escape from Earth.

However, although it's no "Love Dramatic"（ラブ・ドラマティック）, the first earworm of the season for me has been the ending theme for "RobiHachi", "Dancing to Night ~ Kimi e Saitan Warp Kouro" (The Shortest Warp Corridor to You) as performed by the local crime lord Yang and his two henchfolk, Allo and Gras.

Allo and Gras are portrayed by Subaru Kimura（木村昴）and Shinnosuke Tokudome（徳留慎乃佑）respectively but it's indeed Tomokazu Sugita（杉田智和）as Yang that has gotten my attention. Besides, I'm always a sucker for disco tunes and "Dancing to Night" pays some tribute to Earth Wind & Fire's "September" and it also reminds me of some of the music in the aforementioned "Space Dandy". yamazo took care of the lyrics, music and arrangement. Will be looking forward to the full version in the coming weeks.

Tomokazu Sugita, Shinnosuke Tachibana, Jun Fukuyama and Daisuke Ono -- Hoshizora Rendezvous （星空ランデブー）

For my friend and I, it's been an unsettled picture in terms of the newest anime season. We caught some of the pilot episodes of the new shows a few weeks ago but it looks like things may be a bit leaner than usual. However, the two of us have caught onto one of the more bizarre shows in recent memory and I say this as someone who has seen and enjoyed anime that involved animals in a "Cheers"-like setting and heroines who use high technology and the sound of music to battle evildoers.

Yup, I'm talking about "Sekko Boys"（石膏ボーイズ...Plaster Boys）, an 8-minute comedy series about an aidoru group composed of 4 plaster busts: St. Giorgio, Medici, Mars and Hermes, and the manager who has to take care of the....guys. And they are all voiced by some of the star male seiyuus who pull out the full ham.

We've got Tomokazu Sugita and Daisuke Ono（杉田智和・小野大輔）from "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", Shinnosuke Tachibana（立花慎之介）from "Gundam Build Fighters" and Jun Fukuyama（福山潤）from "Shirokuma Cafe" and "Chuunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai" as the titular Sekko Boys also singing the ending theme called "Hoshizora Rendezvous" (Starry Night Rendezvous). It sounds a bit like your run-of-the-mill Johnny's Jimusho aidoru tune (the title sounds like an 80s female aidoru song) but that intro had me thinking of the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night" way back in the 1970s. The song was written by Bonjour Suzuki（ボンジュール鈴木）and composed by Masuda Moveman（満寿田ムーブマン）.

Not sure how "Sekko Boys" is gonna do this season but I gotta give my respects at the way-out-of-left-field idea.