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Imōto Sae Ireba Ii. Anime Announces Cast, Staff

The official website of the television anime of Yomi Hirasaka's Imōto Sae Ireba Ii. (It'd be Good if Only Little Sister Was Here) light novel series announced the main staff and cast on Wednesday. The cast is as follows:

• Yūsuke Kobayashi as Itsuki Hashima
• Nozomi Yamamoto as Chihiro Hashima
• Hisako Kanemoto as Nayuta Kani
• Ai Kakuma as Miyako Shirakawa
• Satoshi Hino as Haruto Fuwa
• Kōsuke Toriumi as Kenjirō Toki
• Tsubasa Yonaga as Setsuna Ena
• Manami Numakura as Ashley Ōno
• Akane Fujita as Kaiko Mikuniyama

As previously listed, Shin Oonuma (Anne-Happy, WATAMOTE) is the supervising director at SILVER LINK Jin Tamamura (Chivalry of a Failed Knight) is the series director. Original creator Hirasaka is handling the series composition and scripts. Sumie Kinoshita (Girlish Number) is designing the characters and serving as chief animation director. Masanori Tsuchiya (Restaurant to Another World) is the sound director and Tomoki Kikuya (The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat.) is composing the music.

Other staff members include:

• Main Animator: Shinpei Aoki
• Prop Design: Misako Izumi
• Art Director: Hirofumi Sakagami
• Color Plan: Mami Hirai
• Director of Photography: Mutsumi Usuda
• Editing: REAL-T
• Music Production: Lantis

The anime is slated for this fall.

The story follows the everyday life of Itsuki, a novelist and "modern day Pygmalion" who works day in and day out to create the ultimate younger sister. He is surrounded by various other characters: a beautiful genius writer who loves him, his big-sisterly classmate from college, a fellow male writer, a sadistic tax accountant, and his editor. They're all looked after by Itsuki's perfect younger "step-brother," Chihiro, who has a big secret.

Hirasaka writes the novel series, and Kantoku (The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat.) provides the illustrations. Since 2015, Shogakukan's Gagaga Bunko imprint has published 650,000 copies of the light novel series' first six volumes. The seventh volume shipped on May 18 with a special edition bundling a drama CD.

[Via Otakomu]