

One night Koutarou is visited by various girls, including a ghost named Sanae, a magical girl named Yurika, a girl who lives underground named Kiriha, and a princess from outer space named Theiamillis. It's a small apartment, but it's only 5,000 yen a month rent, which is an impossibly cheap price! Add in the fact that he has a beautiful landlady and he thinks that he has it made- at least until he starts to get some unexpected visitors. He thinks that he's found just the place: Room 106 at Corona House. With so much interest in the new Onsen Musume series, it shouldn’t be too long before we get to see more from the singing and dancing hot springs.After his father is transferred away for work, Koutarou must find a cheap place to live by himself while attending high school. Offering returns like mini-album CDs, cute merchandise, and tickets to live shows, the project has already raised 3.4 million yen (US$30,165) of its 5 million yet target goal, with 39 days left in the campaign. The release of the promotional video coincides with the launch of the group’s official campaign on Japanese crowdfunding site Makuake.
#Anime girl hot spring series
Starting with these nine members, who will compete against each other in song and dance, the project hopes to expand to include all of Japan’s thousands of hot springs around the country, and eventually culminate in a game and anime TV series about the girls. There’s also Fuuka Arima and Rinka Arima, who are Arima’s famous silver hot spring and golden hot spring respectively.Īccording to the team behind the project, the Onsen Musume story begins when the onsen are summoned forth by the hot spring god Sukunahiko to become anthropomorphised members of an idol group called SPRiNGS. The other girls in the group include: Nanako Akiu, Kanade Baden Yufuin, Izumi Dougo, and Mitsuki Gero, whose surnames all link up to the onsen they’re embodying.

▼ Ayase Noboribetsu is the character for Noboribetsu, Hokkaido’s most famous hot spring resort. ▼ And Yuina Kusatsu as Kusatsu onsen in Gunma Prefecture. There are nine onsen girls in the Onsen Musume group, including Saya Hakone representing Hakone Onsen. Take a look at the girls’ debut in the promotional video below: And if the new promotional video for the group is anything to go by, these girls are definitely going to do a good job of getting people interested in the country’s onsen. Created by a start-up company called Enbound, in conjunction with Tokyo Otaku Mode and Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative, the characters are part of a new multimedia project designed to help promote Japanese hot springs. Now it’s time for Japan’s onsen hot springs to come to life as anime characters, with a group of animated idols called “ Onsen Musume” or “ Onsen Girls“. From historical swords as handsome men in the animated game Touken Ranbu to warships as cute girls in anime series KanColle, talented illustrators around the country have a knack for turning the world’s most unlikely objects into cute wide-eyed anime stars. When it comes to anthropomorphising inanimate objects, nobody does it quite like Japan.

Find out what the country’s most well-known onsen look like as a cute idol group in their very first video.
