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Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring Anime's English Dub Premieres on April 11

Crunchyroll began streaming the English dub of the television anime of Kana Akatsuki's Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring novel series on Saturday. It revealed the English dub cast for the anime:

• Celeste Perez as Hinagiku
• Marisa Duran as Sakura 
• Alejandro Saab as Rosei 
• Christopher Wehkamp as Itecho  
• Alexis Tipton as Ruri 
• Hayden Daviau as Ayame 
• Emi Lo as Nadeshiko 
• Lee George as Rindo 
• Sarah Wiedenheft as Nazuna 
• Monica Rial as Kobai 

Kara Edwards, Mauricio Ortiz-Segura, Aaron Dismuke, Aaron Campbell, Kate Bristol, and Richard Barcenas provide additional voices.

The English dub crew includes:

• Voice Director: Caitlin Glass
• Producer: Samantha Herek
• Adaptation: Dallas Reid
• Mixer: James Baker
• Engineer: Noah Whitehead

The anime premiered on March 28 on the Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 channels (as well as on various streaming services in Japan) at 24:00 JST (effectively, March 29 at 12:00 a.m. JST). The anime is also airing on MBS, CBC TV, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, and Hokkaido Broadcasting. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.

Ken Yamamoto (Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era, Pokémon: Hisuian Snow) is directing the series at Wit Studio. Kazuhiro Furuhashi (director for Mobile Suit Gundam UC, Getbackers, Spy×Family) is the animation adviser. Ayumu Hisao (I'm in Love with the Villainess, Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life) is overseeing the series scripts, and Namiko Torii is the character designer. kensuke ushio is composing the music. vocaloid producer and composer Orangestar both produced and performed the opening theme song "Petals feat. Kase" and the ending theme song "Hana Ikada feat. Kase."

Other staff members include:

• Visual Development, Image Board: Satomi Maiya / Yūtarō Kubo
• Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda (Bamboo)
• Color Key Artist: Ayaka Nakamura (Wit Studio)
• Compositing Director of Photography: Keisuke Nozawa (Graphinica Sappporo Studio)
• Editing: Keisuke Yanagi / ACE
• Sound Production: Tohokushinsha
• Sound Director: Eriko Kimura (Tohokushinsha)
• Animation Producer: Joe Ōtani
• Line Producer: Keisuke Satō

Yen Press has licensed the overall Agents of the Four Seasons novel series, and it describes the first volume of Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring:

Once upon a time, there was Winter.

Winter was once the only season in the world-but such an existence was too lonely to bear, and so it created Spring to love. Before long, the earth wished for more time to rest in the cycle, and Summer and Autumn were born. The ones who carry the cycle are called the Agents of the Four Seasons. Hinagiku, the Agent of Spring, disappeared from this land ten years ago, taking the season of spring with her. Now, after incredible hardship, she has returned to restore the cycle to its proper state-and, as in the myth passed down since the dawn of time, she sends her love to Winter.

The novel series currently consists of two Dance of Spring novels, two Dance of Summer novels, the The Archer of Dawn novel, two Dance of Autumn novels, and the Tasogare no Ite (Archer of Dusk) novel. Suoh illustrates the novels.

The novels topped the 2022 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel Is Amazing!) guidebook's New Title category in 2021.

Nappa Komatsuda launched a manga adaptation of Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine in July 2022. Hakusensha published the seventh compiled book volume on April 3. Yen Press is releasing the manga in English.

Yuriko Asami launched a separate manga titled Shunka Shūtō Daikōsha Moka Momoyo (Agents of the Four Seasons: Hundred Songs, Hundred Leaves) in May 2023 on the KadoComi website. Kadokawa released the manga's second volume in December 2024.

Akatsuki's Violet Evergarden novel series won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award program's novel category in 2014. Akatsuki published the novels under Kyoto Animation's KA Esuma Bunko label. The novels inspired a television anime in 2018, a side story anime in 2019, and a theatrical anime sequel in 2020.

Source: Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)