Dropout Idol Fruit Tart
Dropout Idol Fruit Tart is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Sou Hamayumiba, serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat since May 2015. It has been collected in eight volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Feel aired from October to December 2020.
Plot
Ino Sakura, a girl from Okayama Prefecture, decides to head to Tokyo in order to realize her dream of becoming an idol. Once she arrives there, she moves into a dormitory called Mouse House where she meets Roko Sekino, a former child actor, Hayu Nukui, a musician, and Nina Maehara, a model. When their manager, Hoho Kajino, informs them that Mouse House has been threatened to be demolished, the girls quickly form a new idol group called Fruit Tart in order to save their home.Characters
Fruit Tart
;Ino Sakura;Roko Sekino
;Hayu Nukui
;Nina Maehara
;Hemo Midori
Cream Anmitsu
;Chiko Sekino;Nua Nakamachi
;Rua Nakamachi
Other characters
;Hoho Kajino;Tone Honmachi
;Riri Higashi
;Oto Kogane
Media
Manga
Dropout Idol Fruit Tart is written and illustrated by Sou Hamayumiba. It debuted as a guest series in the January to March 2015 issues of Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine, which were released from November 28, 2014, to January 28, 2015. The series then began serialization in the July 2015 issue, which was released on May 28, 2015. It has been compiled into eight volumes as of December 25, 2024. Houbunsha published an anthology of the series on October 27, 2020.Anime
The 12-episode anime television series adaptation was announced in the May issue of Manga Time Kirara Carat on March 28, 2019. The series was animated by Feel and directed by Keiichiro Kawaguchi, with Kawaguchi and Tatsuya Takahashi handling series composition, and Sumie Kinoshita designing the characters. Monaca composed the series' music. It was set to premiere in July 2020, but it was delayed until October 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hiyori Nitta, Risa Kubota, Haruka Shiraishi, Reina Kondō, and Kyōka Moriya performed the opening theme song "Kibō Darake no Everyday!", as well as the ending theme song "Wonder!" as their characters. The series aired from October 12 to December 28, 2020, on AT-X and other channels.Funimation acquired the series and streamed it on its website in North America and the British Isles, and on AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand. On October 17, 2021, Funimation announced that the series would receive an English dub, which premiered the following day.