'Houkago Saikoro Club' Announces Lead Cast Members

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'Houkago Saikoro Club' Announces Lead Cast Members

Anime production enterprise Genco opened an official website for the previously announced Houkago Saikoro Club (After School Dice Club) television anime on Friday. The website revealed the main cast members and a teaser visual (pictured).

Cast

Aya: Marika Kouno (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby)

Miki: Saki Miyashita (Harukana Receive)

Midori: Miyu Tomita (Gabriel DropOut)

The slice of life comedy manga by Hiroo Nakamichi began its serialization in monthly Gessan magazine in March 2013. Shogakukan published the 14th compiled volume on Friday.

The Spring Game Festival's Sugorokuya booth will hold a special event for the anime at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center on May 25. Manga author Nakamichi and the three main cast members will attend the event.

Official website: http://saikoro-club.com/

Official Twitter: @saikoro_club

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'Ahiru no Sora' Unveils Cast, Additional Staff, Opening Theme Performer

The official website of the Ahiru no Sora anime series revealed cast, additional staff, opening theme performer, and the first promotional video on Wednesday. The television anime adaptation of Takeshi Hinata's basketball manga of the same title will premiere in October 2019.

Cast

Sora Kurumatani: Yuki Kaji (Dive!!)

Momoharu Hanazono: Yuuma Uchida (Banana Fish)

Chiaki Hanazono: Katsuyuki Konishi (Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi)

Kenji Natsume: Kishou Taniyama (Occultic;Nine)

Kaname Shigeyoshi: Mamoru Miyano (Free!)

Shinichi Yasuhara: Taku Yashiro (Domestic na Kanojo)

Ryuuhei Nabeshima: Chado Horii (Ballroom e Youkoso)

Masahiro Saki: KENN (Kyoukai no Kanata)

Madoka Yabuchi: Sayaka Senbongi (Animegataris)

Nao Nanao: Yuna Taniguchi (Death Parade)

Yuka Kurumatani: Aya Endou (Shirokuma Cafe)

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Staff

Prop Design: Hideki Fukushima (Zegapain ADP mechanical design), Michiko Makita (Action Heroine Cheer Fruits)

Art Director: Maho Takahashi (Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri)

Color Design: Miyuki Sunako (Boku no Kanojo ga Majimesugiru Sho-bitch na Ken)

Director of Photography: Youko Ootake (Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro photography)

Editing: Toshihiko Kojima (Mayoiga)

Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa (Yagate Kimi ni Naru)

Music: Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records)

Japanese alternative rock band the pillows will perform the opening theme song "Happy Go Ducky!"

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Shingo Tamaki (Aho Girl) is directing the anime at Diomedea, with Keizou Kusakawa (Kantai Collection: KanColle) serving as the chief director. Gou Zappa (Blend S) is composing the series while Yoshino Honda (Fuuka) is designing the characters.

The sports manga has been serialized in Weekly Shounen Magazine since December 2003. Kodansha published the 50th volume last November. Ahiru no Sora has over 24 million copies of its compiled volumes in print.

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Afternoon Magazine Lists New Anime for Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal Manga

The official website for Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine is listing the cover of the magazine's July issue, which lists a new anime adaptation for Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal manga. The magazine will officially ship on May 25.

The June issue had teased an "important announcement" for the manga in the July issue.

The official sequel manga Mugen no Jūnin - Bakumatsu no Shō (Blade of the Immortal - Bakumatsu Arc) will launch in the July issue. Kenji Takigawa is writing the story, and Ryū Suenobu is drawing the art, with Samura credited for collaboration.

Samura launched the Blade of the Immortal manga in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine in December 1993, and he completed the series in 2012. The manga's 30 volumes have more than 5 million copies in print, and the series has been published in 22 countries and territories. The manga earned an Excellence Prize in the manga category of the 1st Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 1997, and it won the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material in 2000. Since ending Blade of the Immortal, Samura has published the historical manga Harukaze no Snegurochka (The Spring Breeze Snow Maiden) and the romance manga Nami yo Kiite Kure (Waves, Listen to Me).

Dark Horse Comics published the Blade of the Immortal manga in North America, and is rereleasing it in omnibus form. The manga already inspired a television anime in 2008, and Media Blasters released it in English.

Takashi Miike's live-action film adaptation of the manga premiered in Japan in April 2017. The film premiered in North America at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas in September 2017. The film then had a wider theatrical release in November 2017.

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'Kanata no Astra' Announces Additional Cast, Production Staff

The official website of the Kanata no Astra (Astra Lost in Space) anime series revealed additional cast, staff, and a new key visual (pictured) on Saturday. The television anime adaptation of Kenta Shinohara's sci-fi action manga will premiere in July 2019.

Cast

Zack Walker: Shunsuke Takeuchi (Caligula)

Quitterie Raffaelli: Tomoyo Kurosawa (Hibike! Euphonium)

Funicia Raffaelli: Hina Kino (Asobi Asobase)

Luca Esposito: Risae Matsuda (Toji no Miko)

Ulgar Zweig: Kouki Uchiyama (Devilman: Crybaby)

Yun-Hua Lu: Saori Hayami (Fukumenkei Noise)

Charce Lacroix: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru)

Staff

Assistant Director: Yuusuke Shibata (Hakumei to Mikochi episode director)

Main Chief Animation Director: Keiko Kurosawa (Kuzu no Honkai)

Sub Chief Animation Director: Yumiko Yamamoto (Sword Art Online: Alicization animation director)

Mechanical Design: Hiroshi Arisawa (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans mechanical animation director)

Prop Design: Hiroyuki Honda (Shichisei no Subaru)

Space Creature Design: Tomohito Hirose (Radiant)

Art Director: Masatoshi Kai (Goblin Slayer)

Art Setting: Jun Tora (Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue.), Hirofune Hane (Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku art director)

Color Design: Saki Tada (Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou)

Director of Photography: Junko Sakai (Sakamoto Desu ga?)

CGI: Larx Entertainment

CG Director: Daisuke Katou (Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai)

2D Design: Imamura (Barakamon editing)

Monitor Design: Kanako Yamada (Level E)

Editing: Naoki Miyazaki (Konohana Kitan)

Music: Masaru Yokoyama (Fate/Apocrypha), Nobuaki Nobusawa (Steins;Gate 0)

Music Production: Kadokawa

Sound Director: Satoki Iida (Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e)

Sound Effects: Ijou Okuda (Persona 5 the Animation)

Producer: Yuuji Higa (Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace animation producer)

Production: Kanata no Astra Production Committee

Masaomi Andou (Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse) is directing the anime at Lerche, featuring character designs by Keiko Kurosawa. Norimitsu Kaihou (Gakkougurashi!) is in charge of series composition.

Shinohara launched Kanata no Astra in Shounen Jump+ web magazine in May 2016, three years after ending the serialization of SKET Dance. The manga concluded the following December with 49 chapters. Shueisha published the manga in five volumes, with the latest in February 2018.

VIZ Media began publishing the chapters on its website in August 2016 and licensed the manga for physical release in November 2017. The fifth and last volume was released last December.

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Seinen Manga 'Urara Meirochou' Ends

Houbunsha's monthly seinen magazine Manga Time Kirara announced in its June 2019 issue that Harikamo's supernatural 4-koma manga Urara Meirochou will end in the July issue, which will ship on June 8.

Harikamo serialized their manga in the discontinued magazine Manga Time Kirara Miracle! in April 2014, before moving to Manga Time Kirara in 2016. Houbunsha shipped the manga's sixth compiled volume in October of last year.

The series received a 12-episode TV anime adaptation by J.C.Staff, which aired in Winter 2017. Anime Network Online was provided a simulcast on its platform, and the series can now be streamed on HIDIVE. Sentai Filmworks released the anime on Blu-ray in April 2018.

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Takehiko Inoue's 'Real' Manga Series Resumes Serialization

This year's 23rd issue of Weekly Young Jump announced on Thursday that Takehiko Inoue's seinen basketball manga Real will resume its serialization after approximately four and a half years on hiatus. The manga will resume in the magazine's 25th issue on May 23.

Real began as an irregular serialization in Weekly Young Jump in October 1999. Inoue had placed the manga in hiatus in November 2014. Shueisha shipped the 14th volume (pictured) in December 2014. The manga has over 14 million copies of its compiled volumes in print.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English under its VIZ Signature imprint in November 2007 and published the first volume in July 2008. The 14th volume went on sale in March 2016.

Real received an Excellence Award at the 5th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2001.

The manga's resumption was announced as one of the seven projects commemorating the 40th anniversary of Young Jump, which began as a bi-weekly magazine in May 1979 and has been published weekly since 1981.

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Manga 'Val x Love' Gets TV Anime Adaptation

The June 2019 issue of Square Enix's Shounen Gangan announced a television anime adaptation Ryousuke Asakura's ecchi supernatural comedy manga Val x Love on Saturday. Avex Entertainment simultaneously opened an official website for the anime series, revealing a teaser visual (pictured).

Synopsis

Akutsu Takuma wants nothing more than to be left alone, to live and study in peace. He has a terrifying face, which has prevented him from making friends and earned him the nickname "Akuma" (devil). However, he is satisfied with being alone and spending all of his time learning, hoping to become the good person his late mother saw in him.

All of this changes when he gets involved with the nine Saotome girls, who are Valkyries. Takuma is called by Odin to pair with them to protect the world from demons and the threat of total destruction. The Valkyries' power comes from love, and so now he must live with them and try to become closer to them. To start with, they prioritize his intimacy with the strongest Valkyrie, Natsuki. Will he and the Saotome women be able to save the world? (Source: MangaHelpers)

Val x Love, also known as Ikusa x Koi, has been serialized in Shounen Gangan since December 2015 with six volumes in print as of October 2018. Square Enix published the seventh volume on Saturday. The manga has a cumulative 400,000 copies of its compiled volumes in circulation.

Yen Press licensed the manga in English in April 2017 and published the first volume in January 2018. The sixth volume went on sale earlier this February.

Official website: https://val-love.com/

Official Twitter: @val_love_pr

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