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The Asterisk War Casts Mai Nakahara, Haruka Chisuga

posted on by Egan Loo
Nobuo Tobita, Omi Minami, Takahiro Sakurai also star in October anime

The website for the anime of Yuu Miyazaki's light novel series The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water (Gakusen Toshi Asterisk) announced more cast members on Tuesday. The new cast members include:


Mai Nakahara as Haruka Amagiri, Ayato's older sister


  • Haruka Chisuga as Sylvia Lyyneheym, Queenvale Girls' Academy's student council president
  • Nobuo Tobita as Shuma Sakon, Allekant Academy's student council president
  • Omi Minami as Fan Xinglou, Seventh Jie Long School's student council president
  • Takahiro Sakurai as Ernest Fairclough, St. Gallardworth Academy's student council president

Aniplex of America announced on Tuesday that it had licensed the anime. The series will stream on Crunchyroll beginning on October 3. Aniplex of America describes the story:

Invertia (meteor storm)… an unprecedented disaster that struck the world during the 20th century.

Because of this disaster, numerous cities around the world were destroyed. However, within the meteor, an unknown element called mana (the all-encompassing element), was discovered, which allowed human technology to make rapid strides.

This also gave rise to a new species of human born with unique skills – the Star Pulse Generation (Genestella).

The setting for the world's greatest comprehensive battle spectacle, the Festas (Star Warrior Festivals), is an academy city above the water surrounded by six academies called “Rikka,” also commonly known as “Asterisk.” Having transferred into Seidoukan Academy in order to fulfill his own wish, scholarship student Ayato Amagiri swears he too will fight in this city.

Burning souls race…
The curtain rises on this school battle spectacle!

The main cast includes:

Atsushi Tamaru as Ayato Amagiri


Ai Kakuma as Julis-Alexia von Riessfelt


Nao Toyama as Claudia Enfield


Shiori Izawa as Saya Sasamiya


Ari Ozawa as Kirin Todo


Additional cast includes:

Yūma Uchida as Eishiro Yabuki
Takanori Hoshino as Lester MacPhail
Chinatsu Akasaki as Ernesta Kuhne
Mutsumi Tamura as Camilla Pareto
Yumi Uchiyama as Irene Urzaiz
Juri Nagatsuma as Priscilla Urzaiz
Tomokazu Sugita as Dirk Eberwein

Manabu Ono (A-Channel, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, The irregular at magic high school, Saki) is serving as general director of the series at A-1 Pictures. Kenji Seto (Wooser no Sono Higurashi Kakusei-hen, assistant director on A-Channel and Saki) is directing the series, Tetsuya Kawakami (Nanana's Buried Treasure, Robot Girls Z, Shigofumi - Letters from the Departed, Toei Robot Girls) is handling the character designs and serving as animation director, Rasmus Faber (Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne theme songs) is composing the music, and Flying Dog is producing the music.

Shiena Nishizawa is performing the opening theme song, and Maaya Sakamoto is performing the ending theme song "Waiting for the rain."

The anime is also inspiring a PlayStation Vita game in 2016.

Miyazaki launched the novel series in 2012, and Media Factory published the eighth volume on May 25. The light novels have inspired a manga by Ningen, as well as the Gakusen Toshi Asterisk Gaiden: Queenveil no Tsubasa spinoff manga by Shou Akane.

Thanks to Maddy Maybery for the news tip.

[Via Ota-Suke]


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