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Hiro Shimono Joins Cast of DAYS Soccer Anime
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for the television anime of Tsuyoshi Yasuda's soccer manga DAYS revealed on Thursday that Hiro Shimono is joining the cast as Jiro Haibara.
The previously announced cast members include:
Takuto Yoshinaga as Tsukushi Tsukamoto
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Jin Kazama
Daisuke Namikawa as Hisahito Mizuki
Mariya Ise as Chikako Ubukata
Ayane Sakura as Sayuri Tachibana
Katsuyuki Konishi as Katsutoshi Nakazawa
Mamoru Miyano as Kiichi Ōshiba
Daisuke Ono as Atsushi Kimishita
Takahiro Sakurai as Yūta Usui
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Shō Nakijin
Suzune Okabe as Naoki Shiratori
Kaito Ishikawa as Tetsuya Nitobe
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Hiroyuki Kurusu
The anime will premiere this summer on MBS, Tokyo MX, BS11, and Animax.
Kônosuke Uda (One Piece, Ginga e Kickoff!!, Majin Bone) is directing the anime at MAPPA (Terror in Resonance, Rage of Bahamut Genesis). Kazuto Nakazawa (El-Hazard: The Wanderers, The Legend of Black Heaven, Terror in Resonance) is designing the characters for animation, and Masafumi Mima (Macross Frontier, Infinite Stratos, Attack on Titan) is in charge of sound direction at Techno Sound. Yoshihiro Ike (Empire of Corpses, Cobra The Animation, Rage of Bahamut Genesis) is composing the music, and Pony Canyon is producing the music.
The manga centers on two boys who were never meant to meet: Tsukushi Tsukamoto, who has no special skills but secretly hides a passionate heart, and Jin Kazama, an isolated soccer genius. On a stormy night, the two meet, and that meeting creates a whirlwind in the world of high school soccer.
[Via Nijimen]
