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Aoharu x Kikanjū TV Anime Reveals Main Cast, Summer Premiere
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The official website for the television anime adaptation of NAOE's Aoharu x Kikanjū (Aoharu x Machinegun) manga revealed the series' lead cast and summer premiere on Sunday.
Mikako Komatsu (Nisekoi's Seishiro, Aldnoah.Zero's Inko, K's Neko) will star as Hotaru Tachibana. Tomoaki Maeno (Death Parade's Decim, Yowapeda's Juichi Fukutomi, Log Horizon's Naotsugu) will voice Masamune Matsuoka and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Sword Art Online's Kirito, A Lull in the Sea's Shun Sayama, Absolute Duo's Thor Kokonoe) will voice Tohru Yukimura.
NAOE posted an image on Twitter supporting the new voice cast.
AJお疲れ様でした!ついにメインの3人の声優さんが発表でございます…!
他のキャラも楽しみにしててくださいね^^→公式@aoharu_anime #aoharu_anime pic.twitter.com/xXIXuBYRGo
— NAOE★アニメ化するよ! (@AGOnaoe) March 22, 2015
The manga follows high school student Hotaru Tachibana, a girl disguised as a boy. Through strange circumstances she finds herself drawn into the world of survival games by a host, Masamune Matsuoka. The two form a team with ero-manga artist Tohru Yukimura and aim to be the be the best in Japan.
NAOE began the series as a two-part short and then premiered the full series in Square Enix's GFantasy magazine in January 2013.
[Via Ota-Suke]