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Hana-Kimi TV Anime Reveals Same-Day English Dub Debut, Cast
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The dub stars:
- Katelyn Barr as Mizuki
- Wyatt Baker as Sano
- Dallas Reid as Nakatsu
- Joshua Waters as Nanba
- Reagan Murdock as Umeda
- Jaclyn Thomas as Julia
- William Ofoegbu as Juso
- Ethan Condon as Kayashima
- Adam Elliott as Kunijima
- Justin Briner as Nakao
- Tyson Rinehart as Nihonbashi
- Ben Stegmair as Noe
- Tom Henry as Sekime
- Josh Bangle as Baseball Guy
- Landon McDonald as Basketball Guy
- Doug Jackson as Janitor
- Christopher Guerrero (Chris Guerrero) as Track Captain
- Stephen Sanders as Rugby Guy
- Aaron Dismuke as Tennis Guy
Jad Saxton is directing the dub, and Susie Nixon is producing. Heather Walker is adapting the script. Gino Palencia is the mixer, and Tina Son is the engineer.
The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX channel on Sunday at 9:30 p.m. (7:30 a.m. EST), and it will also run on BS11, MBS, CBC TV, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, and other channels. Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, the CIS, and India.
The anime had its episode 1 world premiere at the Anime NYC event on August 23.
Natsuki Takemura (Go! Go! Vehicle Zoo director, Dragon Goes House-Hunting episode director) is directing the anime at Signal.MD, and Shigeru Ueda (To Love-Ru, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode director) is the assistant director. Takao Yoshioka (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, Horimiya: The Missing Pieces) is in charge of series scripts, Shi Yi Su (Dragon Goes House-Hunting) is designing the characters, Masaru Yokoyama (Arakawa Under the Bridge, Horimiya: The Missing Pieces, 2022 & 2024 Urusei Yatsura) is composing the music, and Jin Aketagawa (86, Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc, Golden Kamuy) is the sound director.
Additional staff includes:
- Prop Design: Yoshitomo Hara
- Color Key Artist: Natsuyo Ban
- CG Director: Masayoshi Nishimuta
- Art Director: Kei Ichikura
- Compositing Director of Photography: Masashi Uoyama
- Editing: Kasumi Shibata
YOASOBI perform both the opening theme song "Adrena" and ending theme song "Baby."
Nakajo died at 50 years old in October 2023 due to a heart condition.
Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e (Hana-Kimi) was Nakajo's defining work, running in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine from 1996 to 2004.
Nakajo ran a short continuation of the Hana-Kimi manga in 2011, and published a special chapter in 2014. Her latest update to the series was Himitsu - Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e After School, which debuted in 2021. Viz Media published the Hana-Kimi manga in North America, and also published her Sugar Princess manga.
Viz Media describes Hana-Kimi:
Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself to transfer to a high school in Japan...but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she's going to an all-guys' high school...and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they're more than classmates...they're roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates--and the school nurse--must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation...
The manga inspired a 2007 live-action television series and a second live-action series starring AKB48 idol group member Atsuko Maeda in 2011. Besides the two Japanese live-action television series, the manga also inspired a live-action television version in South Korea and a 2006 live-action television version in Taiwan.
Source: Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)
