Carole & Tuesday

CAROLE & TUESDAY is an original sci-fi music drama TV anime produced by bones, created and chief-directed by Shinichiro Watanabe with co-direction by Motonobu Hori. Set on a colonized Mars where AI dominates the music industry, two young women from opposite walks of life—Carole Stanley and Tuesday Simmons—meet by chance and dare to make music with their own hands and voices. With Watanabe's signature fusion of music and visual storytelling at its core, this wholly original work offers a heartfelt coming-of-age narrative that stands apart from the algorithmically driven world it depicts—a must-watch for fans of music-driven anime.

Set fifty years into humanity's colonization of Mars, this story unfolds in a future where artificial intelligence dominates the cultural landscape. Music, art, and entertainment are largely generated by algorithms, and society has grown comfortable simply sitting back and consuming what machines produce. Against this backdrop, Carole Stanley scrapes by in the bustling Martian metropolis of Alba City, juggling part-time jobs while nurturing a quiet but persistent dream of becoming a musician—though a lingering sense of emptiness follows her everywhere. Far away in the quieter Herschel City, Tuesday Simmons grows up in a privileged household, yet feels utterly alone in her passion for music, surrounded by people who cannot grasp what she truly longs for. When fate brings these two young women together, their shared love of song becomes the foundation of an unlikely partnership. In a world where human creativity has taken a back seat to automation, these two girls dare to make music entirely their own.