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ReLIFE Anime Reveals More Cast, Theme Song Artists
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The streamed Niconico Live program for the television anime of Yayoiso's ReLIFE manga announced more cast members and the performers of the theme songs on Monday:
The following voice cast members will play the school's faculty:
Wataru Hatano as Kōshi Usa, a physical education teacher who heads the boys' volleyball team. Unlike the girls' volleyball team, the boys' team is weak.
Miyuki Sawashiro as Kokoro Amatsu, a physical education teacher and the homeroom teacher for Kaizaki and the rest of Class 3-3. She heads the girls' volleyball team.
Penguin Research is performing the opening theme song, and a different musical act will perform the ending theme song in each episode. The staff is aiming for songs that the character Kaizaki could have listened to on an MD during his high school days in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Voice actress Yūma Uchida hinted that TM Revolution might perform one of the ending theme songs.
As previously announced, the anime will star:
Ai Kayano (Anohana's Menma, Your Lie in April's Nagi Aizato) as Chizuru Hishiro, a prodigy who has the best grades among the girls in her class. She's extremely bad at communication. She has a habit of immediately looking up anything she doesn't understand on the internet.
Ryohei Kimura as Ryō Yoake, a member of the ReLife research team, and the person in charge of Arata's experiment. He's always cheerful, but has a cunning personality. He takes the form of a high schooler and supports Arata as a classmate.
Haruka Tomatsu as Rena Kariu, a stoic tsundere who has good grades, sports prowess, and a competitive personality. However, she's never satisfied and is always aiming higher.
Yuma Uchida as Kazuomi Ōga, who looks flashy, but he has the best grades among the boys in his class. He has a pure side and is not interested in romance. He is not athletic.
Reina Ueda as An Onoya, a third year in Arata's class. She may be positive about everything she thinks about, but then she may not be thinking about anything.
Noriaki Sugiyama (Naruto Shippuden's Sasuke) as Akira Inukai, a young man with an unfriendly, blunt, but also honest personality. He's the kind of person to act before speaking. Tamarai and Asaji call him "Aki (-chan)."
Daisuke Namikawa (Hetalia's Italy) as Nobunaga Asaji, a kind and friendly young man. Is very skilled in athletics. Tamarai and Inukai call him "Nobu (-chan)."
Ono will be reprising his role of Arata Kaizaki in the stage play this fall.
The manga's story revolves around Arata Kaizaki, an unemployed, single 27-year-old who has just been cut off from his parents' financial support. Unable to find a job due to his leaving his previous employer within three months, he is stuck. One night after drinking with a high school friend, Arata meets Ryō Yoake, a man who offers Arata pills to turn him back into a 17-year old so he can redo his life. After agreeing to the experiment, Arata joins a high school class, and meets Chizuru Hishiro, a socially awkward silent beauty who yearns to have friends. Through connecting with her and other classmates, Arata must find what he lacks to live a happy life in the real world within a one-year time limit.
Tomochi Kosaka (episode animation director for Giant Killing, Yowamushi Pedal) is directing the anime, and Kazuho Hyodo (Himegoto, Wanna Be the Strongest in the World, Big Windup!) and Michiko Yokote (Shirobako, Princess Tutu, Big Windup!) are in charge of the series scripts. Junko Yamanaka (Kamisama Kiss, Servamp) is adapting Yayoiso's character designs for animation.
TMS Entertainment is producing the adaptation, and the "ReLIFE Kenkyūjo" (Laboratory) is the production committee.
The ReLIFE anime will premiere on Japanese television in July.
Yayoiso began her manga on the Comico free manga app in 2013, and it was green-lit for physical publication in 2014. Taibundo released the manga's fifth compiled volume on February 12, and the physical compiled volumes have more than 1 million copies in print. Crunchyroll is releasing the manga in English digitally.
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