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A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace Anime Reveals 2 New Cast, October 6 Debut
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Happinet revealed the second key visual, additional cast, and October 6 debut for the television anime of Kuzushiro's Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. (A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace) manga on Thursday.
The newly announced cast are:
The anime will debut on October 6 on the AT-X channel at 9:30 p.m. JST, on Tokyo MX at 10:00 p.m. JST, and on BS Asahi at 11:24 p.m. JST. The anime will then air on Iwate Menkoi TV on October 12.
The anime stars:
- Yūko Natsuyoshi as Nana Futami
- Sora Amamiya as Kaede Satō
- Miku Itō as Mizuki Hazama
- Yū Kobayashi as Arisa Nashida
- Eriko Matsui as Tōko Kakunodate
- Miharu Hanai as Nekonote
- Iori Saeki as Shiori Asakura
- Mamiko Noto as Ren Takizawa
- Kikuko Inoue as Wakako Tatsunami
Kaoru Suzuki (DIVE!!, My Roommate is a Cat) is directing the anime at Voil. Mio Inoue (My Awkward Senpai, Slow Start) is in charge of series scripts, Kana Miyai (Beyblade Burst QuadStrike, Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia) is designing the characters, and Ryō Tanaka (Solo Leveling, Thermae Romae Novae, Acro Trip) is the sound director. Kei Haneoka (Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life, Kaguya-sama: Love is War) and Hironori Doi (Umineko When They Cry music staff) are composing the music, and Pony Canyon is in charge of music production. HoneyWorks and HaKoniwalily will perform the anime's opening theme song "Zettai Shōsan" (Absolute Praise), and Sizuk will perform the anime's ending theme song "Thankful."
The working girls manga centers on Nana Futami, a rookie shōjo manga artist who is supported by her female editor Kaede Satō and her assistant Mizuki Hazama. Even though Nana sometimes suffers from intense delusions due to (what she tells herself is) an occupational illness, she keeps working day-to-day with the help of those around her.
Kuzushiro (Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san, Living With My Brother's Wife) first launched the manga as a one-shot in Kodansha's Kiss magazine in February 2019, and started its serialization in Kodansha's Comic Days app and website in May 2019. Kodansha published the manga's 13th compiled book volume on September 19.
Source: Press release
