Nippon Animation will produce a compilation of season 1, with the goal of showing season 2 after Image via the anime's website Let's Make a Mug Too
© On Monday, the Tajimi city government in Gifu Prefecture announced that Osamu Kashiwara's Yakun television anime Manga ad ara Mug Cup Mo (Let's Make a Mug Too) will have an ensemble film project. The franchise's first film will premiere in the city in March 2025. Nippon Animation, which produced two seasons of the television anime, is also producing the film.
According to the Mantan website, the city plans to eventually screen a compilation film of the second television anime season, to drum up support for a hypothetical third season.
Tajimi City plans to screen the compilation film at Valor Culture Hall. The city aims to promote tourism through the film. The city has earmarked 5 million yen (about $32,000) for the film's production and distribution costs, and will include the amount in the supplementary budget for fiscal year 2024, which will be submitted to the meeting City Council regular session on Thursday. The film will be financed by corporate tax contributions back home.
The first season of Let's Make a Mug Too premiered in April 2021, while the second season premiered in September 2021. The anime spin-off is titled Rokurō no Dai Bōken (Rokurō's Great Adventure ), in partnership with dental app DentalE, launched exclusively in the app this spring.
The manga's English website describes the manga:
Tajimi City, located in southern Gifu Prefecture, Japan, is famous for Mino earthenware. The city has many historic ceramic manufacturers and ceramic art museums. There are facilities where you can try your hand at pottery making, and many restaurants serve Minoware dishes.
The story begins when a high school girl moves to a shopping street in Tajimi. Many encounters await her, friends, town folk, ceramic art, etc. What will she discover in a town famous for ceramics?
The manga launched in 2012 and updates four times a year. The manga also has a four-panel spinoff manga titled Naoko no Kobachi. A separate manga adaptation for the anime debuted on Akita Shoten's free manga website “Manga Cross” in January 2021. Original author Osamu Kashiwara is writing the story for the new manga.
Source: Gifu Shimbun Web, Mantan Web