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The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting Anime's Video Reveals More Cast, Staff, Opening Song, July 7 Premiere
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The official website for the television anime of Tsukiya's The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting (Kumichō Musume to Seiwagakari) manga began streaming a new promotional video for the anime on Tuesday. The video reveals more cast and staff for the anime, and also reveals and previews its opening theme song "Mirai no Hero Tachi e" (To Tomorrow's Heroes) by Shō Takeyaki. The video also reveals the anime's July 7 premiere date. The site also revealed a new visual for the anime.
The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX on July 7, on RKB Mainichi Broadcasting on July 8, on BS NTV on July 10, and on the Television Shin Hiroshima System on July 12.
The newly announced cast members include:
Jun Fukuyama as Masaya Hayami
Hiroshi Kamiya as Yuri Mashiro
The newly announced staff members include:
- Sub Character Design: Kazue Mori
- Main Animators: Kuniaki Masuda, Motoaki Satou, Mizuki Furiya, Shunsuke Masuda
- Art Director: Shunichiro Yoshihara
- Art Setting: Kaoru Aoki
- Art Background: Bihou, Inc.
- Color Key: You Iwaida
- Director of Photography: Rieko Koike
- Editing: Daisuke Hiraki
- Sound Director: Itsuro Kawasaki
- Sound Production: Studio Mausu
- Music Production: bilibili
The previously announced cast members include:
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Tooru Kirishima
- Misaki Watada as Yaeka Sakuragi
- Kaito Ishikawa as Kei Sugihara
- Ryōta Takeuchi as Kazuhiko Sakuragi
- Mai Nakahara as Miyuki Sakuragi
- Misa Kobayashi as Kanami Kurosaki
- Tomoaki Maeno as Tōichirō Aoi
Itsuro Kawasaki (Tsukiuta. THE ANIMATION, True Cooking Master Boy, Cardfight!! Vanguard) is directing the anime at studios feel. and GAINA. Keiichirō Ōchi (Adachi and Shimamura, The Quintessential Quintuplets, Hinamatsuri) is overseeing the series scripts, Hiromi Ogata (Katana Maidens: Mini Toji, Magic Kaito 1412) is designing the characters, and Takurō Iga (Tsuki ga Kirei, Slow Loop, Magical Girl Raising Project) is composing the music.
Kaiten Books has licensed the manga, and it released the manga's second volume on March 22. The company describes the story:
Kirishima Tooru is as vicious a yakuza as they come, to the point where he's earned the nickname "the Demon of Sakuragi." To get him under control, he's suddenly given a new mission straight from the boss—to babysit his daughter!
Tsukiya launched the manga in June 2018 on the Comic Ride pixiv site, and the series later moved to Comic Elmo. Micro Magazine published the seventh volume on February 10.
Sources: The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting anime's website, Comic Natalie
