hentatsu
A series of shorts, each being anywhere between half a minute to two minutes long, released by irodori, originally between January and July of 2018 (consisting of 7 shorts), and August and September of 2019 (consisting of 2 shorts). It follows two girls - one who's a black-haired oni (voiced by Takasugi Kaoru) and another who's pink-haired, wears glasses and has cat ears (voiced by Kadowaki Mai) - as they discuss a variety of things.
Following a teaser on the 28th of December (announcing that something was to be aired on four different channels on the 4th of January, 2020 at 23:57), it was revealed on the 4th that Hentatsu would be airing a new set of shorts on TV, the shorts being shortly after being uploaded to Twitter and YouTube.
During the original web shorts, the two girls remained unnamed, though Kadowaki referred to her character as 猫さん (neko-san/cat). With the TV shorts, the official website made for them merely refers to them as "Oni" and "Neko" respectively.
Fans theorize that the oni girl represents irodori's Tatsuki, while the cat-eared girl represents Isa Yoshihisa, another member of irodori. Isa is credited in irodori's works as 平安, which is usually pronounced Heian, but is pronounced Hen in Okinawa; Isa being an Okinawan family name. This would make the title of the series a combination of Hen and Tatsuki's names.
External links
- Official combined version of first 7 shorts on YouTube
- Official TV website
- Pre-TV verification of voice actresses: Takasugi Kaoru and Kadowaki Mai
