Joseph Luster
August 17, 2022 
The latest license from the folks at Ascendent Animation is Showtime! ~Uta no O-nee-san Datte Shitai~ (Showtime! ~Even the Songstress Wants to Do It~), and it’s officially getting an English dub. The dub is currently in the works for the Show Time! AnimeFesta shorts, with P.M. Seymour directing the dub, Steve Warky Nunez handling audio engineering and mixing, Kevin Frane as localization supervisor and K. Cornell Kellum as executive producer.
The Show Time! anime is based on Mai Girigiri’s Showtime! ~Minami O-nee-san Datte H Shitai~ (Showtime! ~Even Miss Minami Wants to Have Sex~) manga. In Japan, the series had both an “on-air version” and a more explicit “premium version,” and unlike other AnimeFesta series they both retained the same cast.
The series is directed and written by Saburou Miura (My Matchmaking Partner is a Student, An Aggressive Troublemaker), with character designs by Kenichi Hamazaki and chief animation direction by LAZZ at anime production house Rabbit Gate.
Here’s how Ascendent Animation describes it:
After the passing of Shoji’s wife, “The Sing Along! Show” became a crux of healing for him and his young daughter Kana. After a chance meeting with the show’s beautiful singing starlet, Minami, Shoji tries to start up a relationship—but is this single father ready to handle the realities of dating a TV personality? And can Minami ever find love working in an industry that requires her to keep up a pure and innocent appearance?
