Image source: Press release — via Anime News Network
HIDIVE announced on Tuesday that it will stream Tetsuryō! meet with Tetsudō Musume, the original television anime based on the Tetsudō Musume (Railway Girls) characters, for the fall 2027 season in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The anime's world premiere will screen at this year's Anime NYC event on August 21 at 12:15 p.m. EDT. The company streamed an English-subtitled trailer:
The anime will star:
The original anime's story centers on four train-loving college students who are members of the Tetsudō Ryokō Dōkō-kai ("Tetsuryo" in short, or literally Railway Travel Club). They journey throughout theworld where hundreds of Tetsudō Musume work.
TOMYTEC is credited for the original work in collaboration with I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level novel writer Kisetsu Morita. Misuzu Hoshino (Laid-Back Camp episode director, HokkaidoGals Are Super Adorable!, The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious director) is directingthe anime at East Fish Studio. Aya Satsuki (Solo Camping for Two, "Ippon" Again!, Too Cute Crisis) is overseeing and writing the series scripts, and HisanoriHashimoto (Laid-Back Camp season 3) is designing the characters.
Tetsuryo Club, comprised of the main voice actors – May Tachibana (Misaki), Mao Shōji (Kodama), HarunaFukushima (Ushio), and Hika Tsukishiro (Usa) – perform the ending theme song "Watashi Miraisen" (My Future Line).
The Tetsudō Musume characters"work" in railway companies and railway-related businesses all overJapan, wearing real uniforms and work clothes. As of May 2025, there are 114 Tetsudō Musume all over Japan. Tetsudō Musume launched in 2005, and celebrated its 20th anniversary in2025.