Kodoani.com – The official website and Twitter account for the manga’s television anime In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki (Kunoichi Tsubaki no Mune no Uchi) by Sōichirō Yamamoto posted the anime’s second full promotional video and second key image on Wednesday. The video teases The Peggies’ “Highlight – Highlight” opening song, and also announces the additional cast and an April 9 early screening for the anime.
The newly announced employees are:
Color: Mai Yamaguchi
Art Director: Shunichiro Yoshihara
Art setting: Kaoru Aoki
General Director of Photography: Yuki Oshima
CG Director: Kappei Chino
Editor: Michi Takigawa
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 channels on April 9 at 24:00 (actually April 10 at midnight), and it is also shown on MBS and Chukyo TV.
The comedy manga “kunoichi (female ninja) banned from male students” revolves around Tsubaki Kunoichi, the best student in her school. She lives in a women’s village with the rule that they are not allowed to interact with men. However, she has a curiosity about men that she cannot reveal.
Yūko Natsuyoshi plays the main character Tsubaki, the head of the Dog Team (Inu-Han).
The cast also includes:
Miyari Nemoto as Sazanka, a member of Team Dwarfs younger than Tsubaki
Sayumi Suzushiro as Asagao, the complete opposite of Sazanka in terms of physique and personality
Yumi Uchiyama as Hana
MAO as Konoha
Aya Yamane as Benisumomo
Manaka Iwami as Mizubashō
Miyu Tomita as Tōwata
Marika Kōno as Hinagiku
Maria Naganawa as Kubushi
Yō Taichi as Oniyuri
The staff will reveal a new member daily for 35 consecutive days.
Takuhiro Kadochi (My Hero Academia episode director) is directing the series at CloverWorks.
Konomi Shugo (Aikatsu Friends!, Tropical-Rouge! Precure) is in charge of the series’ scripts.
Yousuke Okuda is designing the characters. Yūsuke Shirato will be composing the music.
Girl rock band The Peggies performed the opening act “Highlight – Highlight.”
Aniplex is recruiting composers and artists to produce different versions of the ending theme song “Akane-gumi Katsudō Nisshi ~Inuhan~.” Winners receive 90,000 yen (approximately US$795), and their theme song variation will be featured in the anime. The voice actors performed all versions of Ending.
Yamamoto’s manga launched in Gessan magazine in January 2018. Shogakukan published the manga’s sixth volume on November 12.
Yamamoto launched the Teasing Master Takagi-san manga in the Gessan mini, the companion book for Shogakukan’s Gessan (Monthly Shonen Sunday) magazine, in 2013.
Via: Kodoani.com