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Harmony of Mille-Feuille Anime Casts Iori Saeki, Mayumi Shintani, Kaori Nazuka

The official website for the anime of the Harmony of Mille-Feuille (Utagoe wa Mille-Feuille) music project revealed three new cast members on Wednesday. These cast members have not yet performed in the project's earlier audio drama releases.

Iori Saeki as Sayaka Iguchi, a member of the light music club and does vocals and plays guitar in the band

Mayumi Shintani as Uta's mother who runs a restaurant serving Western dishes

Kaori Nazuka as Musubu's mother, a noted musician who performs in Japan and abroad

The series will debut on the TOKYO MX channel on July 17 at 9:25 p.m. (8:25 a.m. EDT) with new episodes airing on Thursdays. Various streaming platforms in Japan will then offer the series that same day. BS Fuji will run the series beginning on July 18, with new episodes released on Fridays at 24:30 JST (effectively Saturday at 12:30 a.m.). Aniplus-Asia will also simulcast the anime as it airs.

Pony Canyon describes the anime:

First-year high school student, Uta Komaki.

She has many weaknesses.
But she loves to sing.

Aiming for an ordinary youth,
she tries to join the light music club as part of her high school debut—
only to fail miserably due to her timid nature.

In her despair, Uta encounters
a form of music created solely by the human voice—a cappella.

There, she finds a group of girls whose imperfect youth
is woven together only through their harmonized voices.

—Even without shining, it's still youth.

The anime stars:

• Mirai Ayase as Uta Kamaki, lead vocal
• Yūko Natsuyoshi as Musubu Mayumori, first chorus
• Kanoko Sudōas Airi Kojō, second chorus
• Misato Matsuoka as Rei "Reirei" Konoe, third chorus
• Miharu Hanai as Urū "Ururu" Miyazaki, voice percussion
• Haruka Aikawa as Yako "Kuma-chan" Kumai, bass

The cast for the new group Parabola includes:

• Moeka Koizumi as Mizuki Fujishiro
• Asaka as Zoe Delaunay
• Nao Tōyama as Kikka Sengoku
• Yoshino Aoyama as Reira Tamaki
• KIYOZO as Karin Minami

Takuya Satō (Strawberry Marshmallow, Steins;Gate) is the executive director, and Kiyoto Nakajima (episode director for Villainess Level 99, Narenare -Cheer for you!-) is the series director at Jumondo. Chisato Kikunaga (Don't Hurt Me, My Healer!) and Hitomi Kaiho (Villainess Level 99) are designing the characters.

Pony Canyon and game creator Takuya Yamanaka conceived the original concept, and Yamanaka is also writing the scripts. Che-Rico is credited for the original character design. Pony Canyon is producing the music.

The anime's cast perform the theme song "Omoidebanashi" (Nostalgic Talk).

The project launched in April 2022 with the themes of "a cappella," "high school girls," and "complex." The story of six high school girls coming of age through a cappella music has already spawned voice drama stories, music videos (in which the characters' voice actresses themselves try their hand at a cappella) and documentary videos featuring their lessons.

Sources: Harmony of Mille-Feuille anime's website, Comic Natalie