One Potato Two

The new Di Gi Charat anime was announced in Japan.

I translated the stuff TBS/Pony Canyon/Broccoli used at Anime Expo.
There were messages from the director and Asami Sanada, the voice of Dejiko.

Here's the Japanese information, but it's a little small and I can't translate it fully.

It's a story 10 years later from the normal Dejiko (so it makes her 20 years old), and she is working at a bakery/cafe. On Christmas Day, she meets a guy named Takuro. (A different one from the other two Takuro's).
They constantly bump into each other in the city, and Dejiko start to fall in love with him.

Takuro is an aspiring actor.

There's a new character but I can't see her name. Something-ko.
When I saw the promo video, I thought it was Rabi, but Koge-Donbo was telling me it's not her.

The character designer is Shinya Hasegawa, who did designs for Ikki Tousen, Ai Yori Aoshi, and Utena.

Anyway, here's the pamphlet info:

I finished Kitchen Princess #4.


In the translation notes, I wrote something about the 49 days.

It is a Buddhist belief that after a person dies, their spirit wanders this world for 49 days before going to the other world.
According to my research, they are getting ready for reincarnation or something.

I was able to attend my grandfather's 49 day ceremony last November. None of us in the US made his funeral, since he died suddenly of stroke.
After a full day of listening to monks chant, moving his bones and ashes to the family grave and eating good food...

My grandmother died the next day.

I guess my grandfather took her.

So I experienced a Japanese funeral as well.
I was really surprised when they brought my grandmother's corpse to the home and she was sleeping in the room I usually stay at.