Slow Start TV Anime Reveals Main Cast, Key Visual

Series stars Reina Kondo, Aya Saitō, Tomomi Mineuchi, Maria Naganawa

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The official website for the television anime adaptation of Yuiko Tokumi's Slow Startmanga revealed the main cast and the first key visual for the anime on Tuesday.

The main cast includes:

• Reina Kondo as Hana Ichinose
• Aya Saitō as Tamate Momochi
• Tomomi Mineuchi as Eiko Tokura
• Maria Naganawa as Kamuri Sengoku

Hiroyuki Hashimoto (Is the order a rabbit?, Magical Girl Raising Project) is directing the anime at A-1 Pictures. Mio Inoue (Is the order a rabbit? episode scripts, Eiga Precure All Stars: Haru no Carnival) is in charge of series composition. Masato Yasuno (Flying Witch) is designing the characters for animation.

The anime will premiere in January 2018.

The story centers around 16-year-old Hana Ichinose, who unbeknownst to her classmates, was a year late in enrolling into high school. Although it may not seem like a big deal, it is a big deal to her. She wants to catch up with everyone else someday.

Tokumi launched the manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara magazine in 2013, and Houbunsha published the fourth compiled book volume on June 27.

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Girls' Last Tour Anime's Ad, Promo Video Preview Music

Series stars Inori Minase, Yurika Kubo as girls in post-apocalyptic world

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The official website for the television anime of Tsukumizu's Girls' Last Tour (Shōjo Shūmatsu Ryokō) manga began streaming a television commercial and promotional video for the anime on Tuesday. The videos preview Inori Minase and Yurika Kubo in the lead roles, the duo's opening theme song "Ugoku, Ugoku," and Kenichiro Suehiro's soundtrack music.

The website revealed two new visuals earlier this month.

The cast includes:

Inori Minase as the composed and intellectual Chito

Yurika Kubo as the optimistic Yuuri who loves to eat

The anime will premiere on the AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, and BS11 channels on October 6. It will also run on TV Aichi on October 7, and on TVQ on October 9.

Yen Press licensed the original manga and is releasing it in English. The company describes the story:

Civilization is dead, but Chito and Yuuri are still alive. So they hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and aimlessly wander the ruins of the world they once knew. Day after hopeless day, they look for their next meal and fuel for their ride. But as long as the two are together, even an existence as bleak as theirs has a ray or two of sunshine in it, whether they're sucking down their fill of soup or hunting for machine parts to tinker with. For two girls in a world full of nothing, the experiences and feelings the two share give them something to live for...

Takaharu Ozaki (Persona 5 the Animation -The Day Breakers-) is directing the anime at WHITE FOX. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Is the order a rabbit?, Monster Musume) is writing and overseeing the scripts, and Mai Toda (Matoi the Sacred Slayer, Holy Knight) is designing the characters and serving as chief animation director. Shō Tanaka (No Game, No Life, Re:Zero) is producing the anime. Kenichiro Suehiro (Space Patrol Luluco, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-) is composing the music.

Other staff members include:

• Kettenkrad Design, Modeling: Hiroshi Souma
• Prop Design: Goichi Iwahata, Noritaka Suzuki
• Art Setting: Ryō Hirata, Takahiro Ishimoto, Ren Ishimori, Yasuhiro Moriki
• Art Director: Masakazu Miyake
• Color Design: Hiroyasu Kanemitsu (Wish)
• Special Effects Supervisor: Kumiko Taniguchi (Team Taniguchi)
• Director of Photography: Kazumasa Someya (T2 Studio)
• 3D Director: Patricia Hishikawa (IKIF+)
• Editing: Masahiro Goto (REAL-T)
• Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
• Sound Effects: Tomoji Furuya (Swara Pro)

Tsukumizu publishes the manga digitally on Shinchosha's "Kurage Bunch" website. Shinchosha published the fifth compiled volume on September 8.

Source: Comic Natalie

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Record of Grancrest War Anime Casts Yuko Kaida, Chika Anzai, Yumi Uchiyama, Kaede Hondo

Anime of Ryo Mizuno's light novel series premieres January

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The official Twitter account for the television anime of author Ryo Mizuno and illustrator Miyuu's Record of Grancrest War (Grancrest Senki) light novel series revealed four additional cast members on Monday. The new cast members include:

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• Yuko Kaida as Margret Odius
• Chika Anzai as Laura Hardley
• Yumi Uchiyama as Helga Pialoza
• Kaede Hondo as Coleen Messala

The anime premieres January 2018. The anime's official website previously streamed a promotional video for the anime in June.

The previously announced cast members include:

• Kentarō Kumagai as Theo Cornaro
• Akari Kitō as Siluca Meletes
• Yūichi Nakamura as Irvin
• Reina Ueda as Aishela
• Satoshi Hino as Lassic David
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Moreno Dortous
• Natsumi Takamori as Priscilla
• Ai Kayano as Marrine Kreische
• Takahiro Sakurai as Villar Constance
• Wataru Hatano as Mirza Kooches
• Yūichi Iguchi as Alex Deux
• Minori Suzuki as Ema
• Megumi Nakajima as Luna

Mamoru Hatakeyama (Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū, Sankarea: Undying Love) is directing the series at A-1 Pictures. Mizuno and tabletop RPG writer Shunsaku Yanoare in charge of series composition. WriteWorks is credited with the script, and Hiroshi Yakou (animation director for Prison School, Heavy Object) is designing the characters. Yuugo Kanno (Psycho-Pass, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable) is composing the music, and Yoshikazu Iwanami (Fate/Zero, Kill la Kill) is sound director.

The fantasy action light novel series takes place on a continent ruled by chaos. The chaos breeds disaster, but the Lords of the continent have the power of "Crest" (Holy Seal) that can calm the chaos and protect the people. However, before anyone realizes it, the rulers cast aside their creed of purifying the chaos, and instead start to fight each other for each others' Crests and to gain dominion over one another. The novels center on Siluca, an isolated mage who scorns the Lords for abandoning their creed, and a wandering knight named Theo, who is on a journey to train to one day liberate his hometown, which is under tyrannical rule. Siluca and Theo make an everlasting oath to each other as master and servant, and work together to reform this continent dominated by wars and chaos.

Mizuno and Miyuu launched the series in 2013, and Kadokawa shipped the eighth volume on November 19.

Mizuno previously wrote the Record of Lodoss War light novel series. That series began as a series of magazine articles that recounted the pencil-and-paper role-playing game sessions of players who called themselves Group SNE. Those fantasy adventures evolved into a series of novels by Mizuno that now have over 10 million copies in print.

The novels in turn inspired manga, two original video anime projects, a full-length television anime series, and two animated film projects. Central Park Media released the 1990 Record of Lodoss War video anime series and the 1998 Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight television anime sequel in North America. One of the animated film projects is Welcome to Lodoss Island! (Yōkoso Lodoss Tō e!), a short that featured the characters in super-deformed form. The super-deformed anime series Meshimase Lodoss-tō Senki Sorette Oishii no? most recently premiered in April 2014.

[Via Ota-suke]

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