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Kusunoki's Garden of Gods TV Anime's 2nd Promo Video Reveals April 4 Debut, 4 More Cast Members

The staff for the television anime adaptation of Enju's Kusunoki's Garden of Gods (Kami no Niwatsuki Kusunoki-tei) light novel series began streaming the second promotional video on Friday. The video reveals that the anime will debut on April 4.

The above video also reveals four more cast members.

The anime will debut on TV Asahi's "NUMAnimation" programming block, technically on April 5 at 1:30 a.m. The series will then air on BS Asahi on April 6 at 2:00 a.m. The anime will air on a total of 24 channels throughout Japan.

A special livestream program for the show will stream on March 14.

The anime stars:

• Shōgo Sakata as Minato Kusunoki
• Shinshū Fuji as Yamagami
• Minako Kotobuki as Torika
• Shinnosuke Tokudome as Seri
• Makoto Koichi as Utsugi
• Yūichirō Umehara as Saiga Harima
• Yoshiki Nakajima as Fūjin
• Daiki Kobayashi as Raijin

Sekijuu Sekino (episode director for Goblin Slayer II, Dorohedoro, Asteroid in Love) is directing the anime at JUVENAGE. Ryō Yamauchi (animation director for Vinland Saga, My Master Has No Tail) is the assistant director. Yūji Kobayashi (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal first three seasons) is overseeing the series scripts. Yūko Inoue (Inazuma Eleven, Dark Gathering) and Chikako Noma (I Parry Everything) are designing the characters, and R.O.N (FLCL Alternative, Ninja Kamui) is composing the music.

Other staff members include:

• Art Director: Ken Naitō
• Background Art: Katsuhisa Takiguchi
• Color Design: Azusa Sasaki
• Editing: Kentarō Tsubone
• Director of Photography: Anna Tomisaki
• Sound Director: Hiromi Kikuta
• Recording Adjustment: Yoshio Obara, Chikako Abe
• Sound Effects: Rio Satō
• Sound Production: Half HP Studio
• Sound Production Manager: Chiyo Kagiyama, Yūki Yamada
• Music Production: Nippon Columbia

Miyu Irino is performing the anime's opening theme song "Odoroki no Ko" (Child of Surprise). The song serves as Irino's first anime theme song in his music career. Yuki Ozaki from rock band Galileo Galilei wrote and composed the song.

Yen Press publishes the light novels in English, and describes the story:

Deep in the countryside, Minato Kusunoki is left in charge of a terrifying house overflowing with evil spirits—or at least, it was full until his extraordinary ability cleared them all out! Instead, a procession of unique and peculiar gods is drawn to the comfort of the purified Kusunoki residence, and Minato spends his days relaxing in the company of his spiritual neighbors. What else lies in store for Minato as he lives peacefully surrounded by gods?

Enju launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō ("Let's Be Novelists") website in April 2021, and it began serialization on the Kakuyomu website in December that same year. Kadokawa published the light novels' first volume with illustration by ox in November 2021. The 11th volume shipped on November 17.

Akira Anzai launched a manga adaptation on Kadokawa's ComicWalker website in November 2021. Kadokawa published the manga's first compiled book volume in August 2022, and the fifth volume on December 27.

Source: Press release