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Akebi's Sailor Uniform Anime's Video Unveils Cast, More Staff, January 2022 Debut
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the television anime of HIRO's Akebi's Sailor Uniform (Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku) manga unveiled a new visual and the first promotional video for the anime on Friday. The video reveals the anime's cast, more staff, and January 2022 premiere.
The cast includes:
Sora Amamiya as Erika Kizaki, the first classmate that Akebi meets
Akari Kitō as Tōko Usagihara
Shion Wakayama as Tomono Kojō
The new staff members include:
- Sub-Character Designer: Taishi Kawakami, Masato Anno
- Chief Animation Director: Megumi Kouno, Taishi Kawakami, Masato Anno
- Art Setting: Yoshinori Shiozawa
- Art Director: Kushiro Usui, Yasunao Moriyasu
- Color Design: Asuka Yokota
- Director of Photography: Yūki Kawashita (MADBOX)
- 3D Director: Yohei Miyahara
- Character Retouch: Capsule
- Editing: Akari Saitō (Mishima Editing Room)
- Music: Kana Utatane
- Audio Director: Takatoshi Hamano
As previously announced, Miyuki Kuroki (Her Blue Sky, The Idolm@ster SideM) is directing the anime at studio CloverWorks. Rino Yamazaki (production advancement for Medaka Box, screenplay for DARLING in the FRANXX) is both writing and overseeing the series scripts, and Megumi Kouno (animation director for DARLING in the FRANXX, Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia) is designing the characters.
The manga follows Komichi Akebi and her classmates at a prestigious girls middle school, following their adolescent lives and their growth.
HIRO launched the manga in 2019 on Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump website. The manga's eighth compiled volume shipped on April 19. The manga has more than 500,000 copies in print.
Sources: Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku anime's website, Comic Natalie
