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Hinako Note TV Anime Reveals Main Cast, April Premiere
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The official website for the television anime adaptation of Mitsuki's Hinako Note manga announced the main cast and April premiere for the anime on Thursday. The website also revealed a new key visual featuring five of the main characters.
The anime stars (Note: Not all character name romanizations are confirmed.):
M.A.O as Hinako Sakuragi
Miyu Tomita as Kuina Natsugawa
Yui Ogura as Mayuki Hiiragi
Hisako Tōjō as Chiaki Ogino
Marika Kōno as Yua Nakajima
Yuri Yoshida as Ruriko Kuroyanagi
The website also announced a special stage event for the anime that will be held on March 25 at AnimeJapan 2017. M.A.O, Tomita, Ogura, Kōno, and Yoshida are scheduled to appear at the event.
Takeo Takahashi (Rozen Maiden, Spice and Wolf, Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers) is credited as the chief director for the anime. Tōru Kitahata (Love, Election and Chocolate, Haganai NEXT) is directing the anime at Passione. Tatsuhiko Urahata (Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, GATE) is supervising the series' scripts. Kazuyuki Ueda (Kinmoza! Kiniro + Mosaic, Haitai Nanafa) is adapting the character designs for animation and is also serving as chief animation director. Yukari Hashimoto (March comes in like a lion, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun) is composing the music. Anima & Company (Orange) is producing the series.
The manga centers on titular protagonist Hinako, who is poor at speaking, and lives in a rural part of Japan. She wants to improve her speech to be able to talk to people freely, so in high school, she transfers schools to Tokyo and plans to join a theater club. When she arrives, it turns out her boarding house is a secondhand bookstore, and a girl who eats books lives there.
Mitsuki launched the manga alongside Comic Cune, a former magazine-within-a-magazine supplement for four-panel manga in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Alive magazine, in August 2014. When Comic Cune relaunched as a full-fledged standalone magazine in August 2015, the manga relocated to the new magazine. Kadokawa published Hinako Note's second compiled book volume on August 27.
Source: MoCa News
