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Saga of Tanya the Evil Sequel Film Confirms Returning Staff, Cast
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official website for the anime adaptation of Carlo Zen and Shinobu Shinotsuki's Saga of Tanya the Evil (Yōjo Senki) novel series is now listing the staff and cast for the film.
The returning cast includes:
- Aoi Yūki as Tanya Degurechaff
- Binbin Takaoka as Isaac Dustin Drake
- Daichi Hayashi as Rhiner Neumann
- Daiki Hamano as Matheus Johann Weiss
- Haruka Tomatsu as Mary Sue
- Houchu Ohtsuka as Hans von Zettour
- Jun Kasama as Wilibald Koenig
- Nobuo Tobita as Adelheid von Schugel
- Ryōkan Koyanagi as Severin Bientot
- Saori Hayami as Visha
- Shinichiro Miki as Erich von Rerugen
- Takaya Hashi as Pierre Michel de Lugo
- Tesshō Genda as Kurt von Rudersdorf
- Yūsuke Kobayashi as Warren Grantz
The staff includes:
- Director: Yutaka Uemura
- Script: Kenta Ihara
- Music: Shūji Katayama
- Original creator: Carlo Zen
- Original Character Design: Shinobu Shinotsuki
- Character Design and Chief Animation Director: Yuji Hosogoe
- Art Director: Mizuka Ueda
- 3D Director: Masato Takahashi
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
- Director of Photography: Shinji Tonsho
- Assistant Director: Kana Harufuji
- Color Design: Chiho Nakamura
- Costume Design: Hiromi Taniguchi
- Editing: Yumi Jinguji
- Effect Director: Takashi Hashimoto
- Firearm Design: Hiyori Denforword Akishino and Nao Ootsu
- Magic Design: Fuminori Tsukida and Ryouma Ebata
Most of the staff members are also returning, but Mizuka Ueda is replacing Satoru Hirayanagi as art director, and Fuminori Tsukida is joining as a magic designer. Studio NUT is returning to produce the animation, and Kadokawa Animation is distributing the film.
The film will open in Japan on February 8, 2019.
Kadokawa's Newtype magazine reported in January that the film will be a brand-new work (as opposed to a compilation or recap film). Director Yutaka Uemura told the magazine that the new film will follow from the events of the television anime. He noted that the movie will depict the change in relationship between Tanya and the top brass, as well as the development of her troops.
Source: Saga of Tanya the Evil anime's website
