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Aniplus HD Streams Sweetness and Lightning Anime's English-Subtitled Teaser
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian channel Aniplus HD began streaming an English-subtitled teaser video for the television anime adaptation of Gido Amagakure's Sweetness and Lightning (Amaama to Inazuma) on Tuesday. The video confirms the channel's simulcast premiere of the show for July 5.
The anime will premiere on the channel on July 5 at 12:50 a.m. in Jakarta and Bangkok, and 1:50 a.m. in Singapore, only 45 minutes after the Japanese broadcast.
The anime will premiere in Japan on Tokyo MX, Yomiuri TV, and BS11 on July 5. The series will be the first anime on the new "Anime no Me" programming block established by TMS Entertainment, Shinei Animation, East Japan Marketing & Communications, Inc., Sumitomo Corporation, and Asmik-Ace Entertainment.
Sweetness and Lightning's cast includes:
Rina Endō (Barakamon's Hina Kubota) as Tsumugi Inuzuka
Saori Hayami (Snow White with the Red Hair's Shirayuki) as Kotori Iida
Haruka Tomatsu (Sword Art Online's Asuna) as Shinobu Kojika, Kotori's friend and classmate
Tomokazu Seki (Fate/stay night's Gilgamesh) as Yūsuke Yagi, a café bar owner
Tarou Iwasaki (Ryoko's Case File, One Week Friends) is directing the series at TMS Entertainment with animation cooperation by Shinei Animation. Mitsutaka Hirota (The Prince of Tennis II, X-Men, Bono Bono) is handling the series composition and Hiroki Harada (The Pilot's Love Song, Sasami-san@Ganbaranai, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal) is designing the characters.
"Audiovisual unit" Mimi Meme MIMI will perform the opening theme song "Harebare Fanfare" (Bright Fanfare). Brian the Sun will perform the anime's ending theme song, titled "Maybe."
The anime is based on Gido Amagakure's manga of the same name. The story centers on Kouhei Inuzuka, now a single father raising his daughter Tsumugi after the untimely loss of his wife. Though not a smart kitchen hand, circumstances bring one of his students, Kotori Iida, to help him.
