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Rumiko Takahashi's Rin-ne Anime Casts Ryohei Kimura, Tetsuya Kakihara

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Sora Tokui, Aya Suzaki, Tesshô Genda also in April anime

This year's 14th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine is announcing additional cast members for the television anime of Rumiko Takahashi 's Kyōkai no Rinne (RIN-NE of the Boundary or RIN-NE) manga on Wednesday. The additional cast members include:

The previously announced cast members include:

Yamaguchi played the title characters Ranma and Inuyasha in the television anime of Takahashi's earlier manga works, while Yukino played Inuyasha's heroine Kagome.

Viz, the publisher of most of Takahashi's manga in North America, describes RIN-NE's story:

As a child Sakura Mamiya mysteriously disappeared in the woods behind her grandma's home. She returned whole and healthy, but since then she has had the power to see ghosts. Now a teenager, she just wishes the ghosts would leave her alone! At school, the desk next to Sakura's has been empty since the start of the school year. Then one day her always-absent classmate RIN-NE Rokudo shows up, and he's far more than what he seems!

The official website for the anime also began streaming the show's first promotional video last January.

KEYTALK will perform the show's opening theme song "Ōkaranman," and the band Passepied will perform the ending theme song "Tokinowa."

The anime will run for 25 episodes. Seiki Sugawara (D-Fragments) is directing the anime at Brains Base (One Week Friends), and Michiko Yokote (Ranma ½, Shirobako) is in charge of the series scripts. Akimitsu Honma is composing the music, and NHK Enterprises, NHK, and Shogakukan Shueisha Production are producing.

The television anime will premiere on April 4 on the public broadcaster NHK's E Tele channel.

Takahashi created such manga as Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku, and Urusei Yatsura before she began serializing RIN-NE in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2009. (She ended her long-running series Inuyasha in the same magazine.) The manga has consistently ranked in on Japan's best-seller list.


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