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Magic-kyun Renaissance Anime Premieres in October
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website of the Magic-kyun! Renaissance multimedia project revealed on Sunday that the project's television anime will premiere in October on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, and BS11. The show will also stream on Bandai Channel, Animate Channel, LINELIVE, and Niconico.
The project's website explains the story:
A world where art becomes magic. In this world, people who can inspire passion with their Magic Arts are called Artistas, and are employed in show business. In Hoshinomori Private Magical Arts High School, where Artistas are taught, a strange new student named Ohana Aigasaki transfers into the school.Ohana is placed on the planning committee for the school's yearly Hoshinomori Summer Festa cultural festival. She spends her romantic school life with six other boys who aim to become entertainers in the future.
Each of the boys specializes in his own Arts, and aims to make Hoshi Fes a success. In addition, the boys also aim to be chosen alongside Ohana as the school's Artista Prince and Princess, only chosen once a year.
A Magic-kyun for you! A new renaissance starts here! Magic-kyun! Renaissance is a multimedia project where you can create great memories with Artistas of greatly varying personalities!
The cast includes:
- Yuichiro Umehara as Teika Ichijōji
- KENN as Aoi Suminomiya
- Yūki Ono as Rintarō Tatewaki
- Wataru Hatano as Louis Anjō
- Shōta Aoi as Monet Tsukushi
- Takuya Eguchi as Kanato Hibiki
Hajime Yatate (a penname for the Sunrise animation staff as a whole) is credited with the original concept. Mitsue Yamazaki (Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East) is directing the television anime at Sunrise, after working on the project's earlier promotional shorts. Tomoko Konparu (NANA, Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000%, Dance with Devils) is also returning to write the scripts. Kairi Yura (Angelique, The Story of Saiunkoku) drew the original character designs, and Kumi Ishii (Rozen Maiden, Brothers Conflict, Oreimo) is designing the characters for animation.
[Via Ota-suke]
