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Bakutsuri Bar Hunter TV Anime Reveals Additional Cast
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official website for the Bakutsuri Bar Hunter television anime series revealed four additional cast members on Monday.
The new cast members are:
Takeshi Kusao as Totta's father Tōma Tachitsute
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Totta's uncle Tonpei Tachitsute
Takashi Matsuyama as Kiba's father and Code Bank president Hoojirō Samejima
Megumi Urawa as woman working at the Shimada shop
The previously revealed cast members are:
Ryō Hirohashi as protagonist Totta Tachitsute
Yumi Uchiyama as Totta's bar soul partner Potepen
Mitsuki Saiga as Totta's rival Kiba Samejima
Kōta Nemoto as the bar soul Shuwajirō
Kenji Seto (The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water, Ms. Koizumi loves ramen noodles) is serving as series director. Yoichi Kato (Aikatsu!, Duel Masters, Yōkai Watch) is handling the series composition, Akemi Yokota (Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V) is designing the characters, and Takatsugu Wakabayashi (PriPri Chii-chan!!, Ange Vierge, Dragonar Academy) is composing the music.
SymaG is performing the opening theme song "Bakutsuri Soul," and Mikako Komatsu is performing the ending theme song "Yūjō ZABOOOON!!" (Friendship ZABOOOON!!).
The series will premiere on TV Tokyo and its affiliates on October 2 at 5:55 p.m.
The multimedia franchise is a collaboration between Bandai, Shogakukan, and Toei Animation, and includes an anime, a manga, a game, and a toy line. Toei Animation will be in charge of the upcoming anime. The manga launched on March 15 in the April issue of Shogakukan's Coro Coro Comics magazine. Bandai began releasing the toy line starting with the "Bakutsuri Bar Rod" on March 17. The toy retails for 4,800 yen (about US$43).
The Bakutsuri Bar Rod is an attachment for a player's Nintendo 3DS, and players can then download a free Bakutsuri Bar Hunter game for the 3DS to play the game.
Sources: Bakutsuri Bar Hunter anime's website, Comic Natalie
