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Non Non Biyori Season 3's Promo Video Reveals More Cast & Staff, Theme Songs, January 10 Debut
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The official website for the anime of Atto's Non Non Biyori manga posted a promotional video and key visual for the third television anime season, Non Non Biyori Nonstop, on Sunday. The video reveals more cast and staff members, previews the theme songs, and announces the anime's January 10 premiere.
The newly announced cast members are:
Aimi Tanaka as Akane Shinoda, a first-year high school student who plays the flute in the same band as Konomi
The band nano.RIPE is performing the opening theme song "Tsugihagi Moyō" (Patchwork Pattern), and the characters Renge Miyauchi, Hotaru Ichijo, Natsumi Koshigaya, and Komari Koshigaya (as voiced by their respective cast members) are singing the ending theme song "Tadaima" (I'm Home). Non Non Biyori Days, an album of the franchise's opening and ending theme songs, will go on sale on February 24.
The newly announced staff members are:
- Color Key Artist: Eri Shigetomi
- Art Director: Atsushi Yokoyama (Kusanagi)
- Compositing Director of Photography: Atsushi Satou
- Editing: Kentarou Tsubone
- Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama
- Music: Hiromi Mizutani
- Music Production: Lantis
The series will premiere on the TV Tokyo and TV Aichi channels on January 10 at 25:35 (effectively, January 11 at 1:35 a.m.), and it will later run on TV Osaka, BS TV Tokyo, and AT-X.
The main cast is returning for the third season:
- Kotori Koiwai as Renge Miyauchi
- Rie Murakawa as Hotaru Ichijo
- Ayane Sakura as Natsumi Koshigaya
- Kana Asumi as Komari Koshigaya
- Kaori Nazuka as Kazuho Miyauchi
- Rina Satō as Kaede Kagayama
- Misato Fukuen as Hikage Miyauchi
- Ryoko Shintani as Konomi Fujimiya
As in previous seasons, the cast for Natsumi and Komari's older brother Suguru Koshigaya is officially credited as "?"
As previously announced, Shinya Kawatsura is returning to direct at SILVER LINK, and Reiko Yoshida is back to supervise the series scripts. Mai Otsuka is again designing the characters, and Kusanagi is returning to handle the background art.
Atto's Non Non Biyori manga previously inspired two television seasons and two original anime DVDs. The first television series from director Shinya Kawatsura and anime studio SILVER LINK (WATAMOTE, Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts) premiered in 2013, while the second season premiered in 2015. Crunchyroll streamed both television seasons as they aired in Japan, and Sentai Filmworks licensed and released both series for North American digital and home video release.
The manga also inspired an anime film titled Non Non Biyori Vacation, which opened in Japan on August 25, 2018. The main cast and staff returned from the previous two television anime seasons for the film. Sentai Filmworks also licensed the film.
The manga takes place in the countryside, where the nearest bookstore is 20 minutes away by bicycle, a certain "Ju_p" magazine comes out on Wednesdays instead of Mondays, and the video rental store is 10 stations away. Hotaru Ichijō transfers from Tokyo to this school and readjusts to the slow life in the country. Her fellow schoolmates are Natsumi, Komari, Renge, and Komari's big brother Suguru in the third year of middle school.
Atto launched the manga in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Alive magazine in 2009. Seven Seas Entertainment releases the manga in English.
Sources: Non Non Biyori anime's website, Comic Natalie
