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Dropout Idol Fruit Tart TV Anime Casts Hiyori Nitta, Risa Kubota
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The fourth compiled book volume of Sou Hamayumiba's Ochikobore Fruit Tart (Dropout Idol Fruit Tart) manga revealed the main cast for the television anime adaptation on Friday.
The cast includes:
- Hiyori Nitta as Ino Sakura
- Risa Kubota as Roko Sekino
- Haruka Shiraishi as Hayu Nukui
- Reina Kondo as Nina Maehara
- Kyōka Moriya as Hemo Midori
Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Island, Million Doll, Please tell me! Galko-chan) is directing the series at feel. Kawaguchi is in charge of series composition with Tatsuya Takahashi (Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko, Ms. Koizumi loves ramen noodles). Sumie Kinoshita (Forest of Piano, Girlish Number) is designing the characters.
The manga's story begins when first-year high school student Ino Sakura heads to Tokyo to pursue becoming an idol. She teams up with fellow Nezumi Dorm residents — unpopular former child actor Roko, musician Hayu, and model Nina — to form the new idol unit Fruit Tart. These dropout idols get back on their feet and enter the world of show business to prevent their dorm from being demolished.
The story debuted as a one-shot manga in the magazine in 2014. The manga then launched as a series in 2015. Houbunsha released the third compiled book volume in June 2018.
Hamayumiba launched the earlier Hanayamata manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine in 2011 and ended it in 2018. The 10th and final compiled book volume shipped in April 2018. That manga inspired a television anime by Madhouse in 2014, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime, and released it with an English dub on home video in 2016. The manga also inspired several smartphone apps, as well as a PlayStation Vita game in 2014.
Source: Manga Time Kirara editorial department's Twitter account via Ota-Suke
