Cast from previous Key anime titles will reprise their old roles
The website of Kaginado (Key, etc.), the first cross over anime series with the Visual Arts ‘ Key franchise, has revealed the anime’s cast, staff, key visuals, and October 12 premiere date on Thursday. Six.
The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX on October 12, on KBS Kyoto and Sun TV on October 13, on AT-X and Niigata TV 21 on October 14, on Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting and BS NTV on October 16 10, on Nagano Asahi Broadcasting on October 18, and on Hokkaido TV on October 19. The anime will premiere in various regions worldwide through Crunchyroll, Funimation, HIDIVE, Wakanim, Aniplus-Asia, bilibili and Muse Asi .
The voice cast for Kanon characters includes:
Tomokazu Sugita as Yuichi Aizawa Yui Horie as Ayu Tsukimiya Mariko Kouda as Nayuki Minase Yukari Tamura as Mai Kawasumi Akemi Satō as Shiori Misaka Mayumi Iizuka as Makoto Sawatari Yukito Kunisaki Asami Sanada voices Misuzu Kamio Sara Takeda voices Kano Kirishima Ryoka Yuzuki voices the late Minagi Tohno Tomoko Kawakami who previously played the character Misuzu Kamio in the Air anime.
The voice cast for Clannad characters includes:
Yūichi Nakamura voices Tomoya Okazaki Mai Nakahara voices Nagisa Furukawa Ryou Hirohashi voices Kyo Fujibayashi Akemi Kanda voices Ryou Fujibayashi Houko Kuwashima voices Tomoyo Sakagami Ai Nonaka voices Fuko Ibuki Mamiko Noto voices Kotomi Ichinose Daisuke Sakaguchi voices Youhei Sunohara
Voiceover for Little Busters! :
Yui Horie as Riki Naoe Tomoe Tamiyasu as Rin Natsume Hikaru Midorikawa as Kyosuke Natsume Nobutoshi Canna as Masato Inohara Yusei Oda as Kengo Miyazawa Natsumi Yanase as Komari Kamikita Keiko Suzuki as Haruka Saigusa Naomi Wakabayashi as Kudoryavka Noumi Ryōko Tanaka voiced Yuiko Kurugaya Shiho Kawaragi voiced Mio Nishizono
The voice cast for Rewrite characters includes:
Masakazu Morita as Kotarou Tennouji Chiwa Saito as Kotori Kanbe Saya Shinomiya as Chihaya Ohtori Eri Kitamura as Akane Senri Keiko Suzuki as Sizuru Nakatsu Risa Asaki as Lucia Konohana Kana Hanazawa as Kagari
In addition, Keiko Suzuki will play Yumemi Hoshino from the alien.
Kazuya Sakamoto (Tabi-Hani) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS Kyoto Studio. Takashi Aoshima is the lead writer, and is penning the script alongside KAI and Toya Okano. Eriko Haga is designing the characters. Kazunari Araki is noted for the prop design. Yukihiro Shibutani is the art director, while Asami Kitsukawa is the color designer. Tomoaki Suzuki is the director of visual synthesis. Kazuo Kajikawa is credited for editing. Akane Maeda is the sound director. Tohoku Shinsha Studio is noted for sound production. Visual Arts / Keys credited to the music.
The chibi character anime will be a hybrid of some of Key’s most popular visual novels and anime, including Kanon, Air, Clannad, Little Busters! , Rewrite, planetarian.
Of the franchises announced for crossover anime, Key’s writer, Jun Maeda, wrote the original visual novels for all but Rewrite, and also worked on the music for all of them (including including Rewrite ).
Kanon debuted in 1999, while Air debuted in 2000, and Clannad in 2004. Kanon has had two television anime adaptations: the first by Toei Animation in 2002 and the second by Kyoto Animation in 2006. Kyoto Animation adapted Air into a television anime in 2005 as one of its first full productions as a studio, and Toei Animation also adapted it into an anime in the same year. . Kyoto Animation also animated Clannad’s 2007 television anime.
Little Busters! debuted in 2007, with an anime adaptation of JC Staff premiering in 2012. Rewrite premiered in 2011, with 8-Bit’s television anime premiering in 2016. Planetarian also inspired a anime in 2016.