Character designer/manga artist/animator Sadamoto Yoshiyuki and LIDEN FILMS creates anime version of Nogizaka46’s “Mouse” girls for the new CM

Nogizaka46 members have been the face for the computer company “Mouse” and have ad campaigns throughout Japan and commercials.

Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, best known for his character designs for “Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise”, “Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water”, “Neon Genesis Evangelion”, “FLCL”, “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” and “.hack//Sign”,  took the five primary members of the “Mouse” commercial: Saitou Asuka, Shiraishi Mai, Nishino Nanase, Ikuta Erika and Hori Miona and created the character deisgns, while LIDEN FILMS (known for their animation for “The Heroic Legend of Arslan”) animated them for a new CM which began airing on August 8th.

Sadamoto has become a fan of Nogizaka46 since 2015 when he saw the PV for “Seifuku no Mannequin”

For more details on the making of the commercial, please click here.