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New Waiting in the Summer/Ano Natsu de Matteru Anime Is an OVA

NBCUniversal passed out its new Anime Guide 2014 at AnimeJapan this past weekend. The guide revealed that the upcoming new anime for Waiting in the Summer (Ano Natsu de Matteru) will be an original video anime (OVA) bundled with the earlier television anime series' Blu-ray Disc box. The Blu-ray box will ship this summer with the 12 television episodes, this new OVA, a previously unreleased CD, and other "deluxe bonus extras."

The cast and staff will reassemble from the television series for the new OVA:

• Haruka Tomatsu as Ichika Takatsuki 
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Kaito Kirishima 
• Kaori Ishihara as Kanna Tanigawa 
• Hideki Ogihara as Tetsurō Ishigaki 
• Kana Asumi as Mio Kitahara 
• Yukari Tamura as Remon Yamano 
• Rina Hidaka as Rinon 

• Original Story: I*Chi*Ka
• Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai 
• Screenplay: Yousuke Kuroda 
• Original Character Design: Taraku Uon 
• Character Design: Masayoshi Tanaka 
• Mechanical design: Kanetake Ebikawa 
• Art Director: Ayu Kawamoto
• Art design: Nobuhito Sue 
• Color design: Maya Muranaga 
• Director of Photography: Yoshio Ookouchi 
• Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama
• Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa 
• Sound Production: Magic Capsule 
• Music: I've sound/Maiko Iuchi 
• Music Production: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
• Opening: Ray
• Ending: Nagi Yanagi
• Produce: GENCO
• Animation Production: J.C. Staff
• Presented by: Natsumachi Production Committee

[Via Yaraon!]