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Oshi no Ko Anime's Video Reveals More Cast, Previews Ending Song
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The staff for the television anime of Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari's Oshi no Ko manga unveiled a new promotional video, a new visual, and two new cast members for the anime on Saturday. The video previews the anime's ending theme song "Mephisto" by Queen Bee.
The new cast members include:
Additional cast members are:
- Takeo Ōtsuka as Aqua
- Yurie Igoma as Ruby
- Kent Itō as Gorō
- Tomoyo Takayanagi as Sarina
- Yumi Uchiyama as Young Aqua
- Megumi Han as Kana Arima
The anime will premiere on April 12 at 11:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. EDT) on the Tokyo MX channel. It will also run on the same day on Chiba TV, Gunma TV, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, BS11, Shizuoka Broadcasting System, TV Aichi, TVK, Saitama TV, Tochigi TV, Hokuriku Broadcasting, Higashinippon Broadcasting, Hiroshima Home TV, TV Hokkaido, TVQ Broadcasting Kyushu, and Broadcasting System of Niigata. It will premiere on April 14 on AT-X. It will stream on Abema TV on April 12, and other streaming services on April 13.
An extended 90-minute version of the first episode will play in advance screenings at cinemas nationwide in Japan starting this Friday, March 17.
HIDIVE will stream the series.
YOASOBI will perform the opening theme song "Idol."
Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) and Yokoyari (Scum's Wish) launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine in April 2020. Shueisha's Manga Plus service is releasing the manga in English digitally.
Yen Press licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
Gorou is a gynecologist and idol fan who's in shock after his favorite star, Ai, announces an impromptu hiatus. Little does Gorou realize that he's about to forge a bond with her that defies all common sense! Lies are an idol's greatest weapon in this outrageous manga from Aka Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) and Mengo Yokoyari (Scum's Wish).
The manga won first place in the seventh "Next Manga Awards" (Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō) in 2021, and also won in the Best General Manga category in the 46th annual Kodansha Manga awards last year. The series was nominated for the 26th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize last year, and has also been nominated for the 14th and 15th Manga Taisho Awards. The manga ranked at #7 on the top 20 list of manga for male readers in the 2022 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook. The manga has over 3 million copies in circulation.
Source: Press release
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