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Hiro Shimono Performs Opening Theme for Kabukibu! Anime
posted on by Anita Tai
The official Twitter account for the television anime of Yuuri Eda's Kabukibu! light novel series announced on Monday that singer and voice actor Hiro Shimono is performing the opening theme song "Running High" for the series.
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.'s composer Ryō Takahashi is responsible for composition and arrangement. Rock band Luna Sea's Shinya is performing the drums for the theme song.
The single for "Running High" will go on sale on April 19.
The series announced its main cast previously:
- Taichi Ichikawa as Kurogo Kurusu
- Yuichiro Umehara as Tonbo! Murase
- Ryota Ohsaka as Shin Akutsu
- Kengo Kawanishi as Jin Ebihara
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Hanamichi Niwa
- Yūko Kaida as Kaoru Asagi
The anime's staff will hold a stage event at AnimeJapan 2017 on March 26. Ichikawa, Ohsaka, Kawanishi, and Shimazaki will attend the event. Ichikawa and Umehara will also appear on a Niconico live streaming program on February 20. The tentatively titled Kabukibu! Seiyū-tachi ga Kabuki wo Mananjaimasu! Zenpen (Kabukibu! Voice Actors Learn Kabuki! Part 1) television special will air on CS-TBS Channel 2 on March 30.
The anime will premiere in April on the TBS and BS-TBS channels. Film distributor Shochiku listed the series with 12 episodes of 25 minutes each.
Kazuhiro Yoneda (Yona of the Dawn, Mahou Shoujo Nante Mouiidesukara.) is directing the anime at Studio DEEN. Yoshiko Nakamura (Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Hiiro no Kakera - The Tamayori Princess Saga) is in charge of the series scripts. The four-creator group CLAMP is drawing the original character designs, and Majiro (Barakamon, Macross Delta, Ongaku Shōjo) is adapting CLAMP's designs for animation.
The series revolves around Kurogo Kurusu, a high school student who loves kabuki so much that it's annoying. Kurogo yearns to perform kabuki as part of a club at his school, but currently his school doesn't have a kabuki club. So Kurogo sets out to create a kabuki club, and his first order of business is to gather members.
Chizu Kamikō launched a manga adaptation of the novels on February 3.
Kadokawa published the novels' fifth volume in November. Eda previously wrote the original story for artist Yamimaru Enjin's one-volume I Can't Even Breathe Without You manga, which Aurora Publishing, Inc. published in English in 2010.
Source: Comic Natalie
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