The anime
adaptation of Hana-Kimi, Hisaya Nakajo's iconic shojo
manga, continues to generate anticipation among fans. The official website
recently confirmed the additional voice actors who will debut
in the first episode, as well as the main production team.
Additional
cast confirmed
The new
characters and their performers are as follows:
- Minami Nanba – played by Yuichiro
Umehara (Goblin Slayer in Goblin Slayer).
- Hokuto Umeda – played by Jun
Fukuyama (Lelouch in Code Geass).
- Senri Nakao – played by Reiji
Kawashima (Fushi in To Your Eternity).
- Taiki Kayashima – played by Koki
Uchiyama (Tomura Shigaraki in My Hero Academia).
- Kyogo Sekime – played by Wataru
Komada (Chris Koron in THE IDOLM@STER SideM).
- Shinji Noe – played by Anan
Furuya (Haruka Asahina in OVERTAKE!).
- Wataru Nihonbashi – played by Kotaro
Nishiyama (Atsushi Kinugawa in Cute High Earth Defense
Club LOVE!).
- Julia Maxwell – played by Yuko
Natsuyoshi (Sasha Necron in The Misfit of Demon King
Academy).
Main
Project Staff
The
creative team in charge of the series is composed of:
- Director: Natsuki
Takemura
- Assistant
Director: Shigeru Ueda
- Series
composition: Takako Yoshioka
- Character
Design: Su Shiyi
- Music: Masaru
Yokoyama
- Sound
Direction: Jin Aketagawa
- Animation
production: Signal.MD
Availability and context
Hana-Kimi's anime will be streamed
on Crunchyroll at the same time as Japan, available for
regions such as Europe, Latin America, North America, Africa, Oceania, the
Middle East, CIS, and India.
The
original manga was published in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine
between 1996 and 2004, accumulating great success at the time. In the
West, VIZ Media publishes it in English. The work has also
inspired live-action adaptations in Taiwan (2006), Japan
(2007, 2011) and South Korea (2012).
Synopsis
of the classic shojo
The story
follows Mizuki, a Japanese-American athlete who decides to transfer
to a high school in Japan with a very particular goal: to be close to her idol,
high jumper Izumi Sano. However, the plan has an unexpected twist:
the institute is exclusively for boys, so Mizuki must disguise herself
as a boy. Fate leads her to share a room with Sano, which triggers a
coexistence full of entanglements, secrets and youthful emotions.
