Canine are man’s greatest buddy, particularly after the top of the world within the upcoming Summer time 2022 anime Doomsday With My Canine.
Sentai Filmworks has introduced it will likely be adapting Yu Ishihara’s webcomic Doomsday With My Canine (Sekai no Owari ni Shiba Inu to), a four-panel webcomic a couple of highschool lady dwelling in an apocalyptic world along with her Shiba Inu named Haru. Regardless of the miserable setting, the comedian’s content material is light-hearted, with Haru, who can converse, serving to his proprietor maintain her spirits up in a miserable world because the final dwelling human. The sequence’ humor comes from Haru’s observations and interactions with the lady, in addition to another characters who seem. It additionally explores philosophical concepts and ideas, with Haru participating in lots of of those conversations.
The Doomsday With My Canine webcomic was initially posted to Ishihara’s Twitter and was picked up by Kadokawa for serialization on ComicWalker in 2018. It was then compiled into three tankobon volumes by December 2020, with new chapters nonetheless being launched as of this writing. The animated comedian will stream on HIDIVE starting in Summer time 2022. It will likely be directed by Aoi Shimoyama and Sorosoro Tanigawa, with the voices offered by Mutsumi Tamura and Maaya Uchida. The sequence can be animated by DLE, additionally recognized for the favored Cranium-faced Bookseller Honda-san.
Doomsday With My Canine is one other entry in a pattern of laid-back, post-apocalyptic titles. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou additionally took this strategy when exploring life after a cataclysmic occasion led to the destruction of recent civilization. Whereas the protagonist is not the final dwelling individual in that sequence, some episodes didn’t characteristic any interplay and centered solely on her as a substitute. Whereas it leans extra into comedy fairly than iyashikei, it does share the style’s light-hearted nature given the circumstances.
The Doomsday With My Canine comedian grew to become standard on Twitter on account of its tackle post-apocalyptic life and the conversations Haru has along with his proprietor and different characters. As of writing, it has a rating of seven.4 on MyAnimeList with 367 votes. One reviewer cites the charming characters and the artwork type as among the sequence’ robust factors.
Different excessive factors are the characters Haru and the lady meet — together with aliens and yokai — and the philosophical conversations Haru partakes in, whether or not it is the that means of affection with different canine or Schrödinger’s Cat along with his proprietor. It is positively an underrated sequence that many followers of cute canine and philosophy will get pleasure from and will take a look at this summer time.
