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Oshiete! Galko-chan TV Anime Casts Minami Takahashi, Azumi Waki
posted on by Karen Ressler
The January 2016 issue of Kadokawa's Newtype magazine will reveal the main cast for the anime adaptation of Kenya Suzuki's Please Tell Me! Galko-chan (Oshiete! Galko-chan) manga on Thursday. The magazine also revealed that the anime will premiere on January 8 as part of Tokyo MX's "Ultra Super Anime Time" block, and also air on BS11 and AT-X.
The three main cast members are, from left to right in the image to the right:
- Miyu Tomita as Otako
- Azumi Waki (The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls' Sanae) as Galko
- Minami Takahashi (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma's Megumi Tadokoro) as Ojyo
Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Psychic Squad, Hayate the Combat Butler, OniAi) is directing the anime and handling the series composition at studio feel. Kenji Fujisaki (Blood Lad, Ozma, B-Daman CrossFire) is designing the characters. The show's opening theme song will feature the character songs for Galko, Otako, and Ojyo. Lantis will ship the currently untitled single on January 27.
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the original manga and plans to release the series in North America beginning on November 22. Seven Seas describes the story:
Galko-chan always speaks her mind, which may not be the wisest decision in all cases, but it's never short of entertaining! Meet the exuberant and unbelievably busty high schooler, Galko, as she traverses the ups and downs of adolescence with spirit and verve, alongside her best friends--the anti-social loner, Otako, and the unpredictably honest, Ojyo.
Each of the girls' names refers to their type. Galko is a pun on gyaru or gal, which is a term used to describe a type of street fashion where women in their teens and 20s bleach their hair and wear highly decorated nails and a lot of makeup. Otako is a pun on otaku, and Ojō refers to a girl who is a daughter of a high-class family.
Suzuki launched the manga on Kadokawa's ComicWalker digital manga service in June 2014, but published it on Twitter before that. Kadokawa released the manga's 60th chapter on Friday. The publisher also released the manga's second compiled volume digitally and in print on June 23.
[Via Yaraon!]
