Ahead of its Summer 2024 debut, the ATRI -My Dear Moments- anime announced with a trailer today that idol groups Nogizaka46 and 22/7 will perform the series’ opening and ending theme songs, respectively. Song titles are yet to be confirmed.
Two commemorative illustrations depicting Atri in attire associated with each group were also unveiled.
Nogizaka46 outfit illustration
22/7 outfit illustration
Based on the visual novel developed by Frontwing and Makura, Makoto Kato (Bloom Into You, Fanfare of Adolescence) directs the ATRI -My Dear Moments- anime at studio TROYCA, with series compositon by Jukki Hanada (Sound! Euphonium), character designs adapted for animation by Michio Sato and music by Fuminori Matsumoto.
The game’s official website describes the story:
Ikaruga Natsuki, a boy who lost his mother and his leg in an accident some years earlier, returns disillusioned from a harsh life in the big city to find his old countryside home half-swallowed by the sea.
Left without a family, all he has to his name is the ship and submarine left to him by his oceanologist grandmother, and her debts.
His only hope to restore the dreams for the future that he has lost is to take up an opportunity presented to him by the suspicious debt collector Catherine. They set sail to search the sunken ruins of his grandmother’s laboratory in order to find a treasure rumor says she left there.
But what they find is not riches or jewels; it is a strange girl lying asleep in a coffin at the bottom of the sea. Atri.
Atri is a robot, but her appearance and her wealth of emotions would fool anyone into think she’s a living, breathing human being. In gratitude for being salvaged, she makes a declaration to Natsuki.
“I want to fulfill my master’s final order. Until I do, I’ll be your leg!”
In a little town slowly being enveloped by the ocean, an unforgettable summer is about to begin for this boy and this mysterious robot girl…
Source: Comic Natalie
