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Taisho Otome Otogi Banashi TV Anime Reveals 1st Promo Video, 4 More Cast Members
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
A stage presentation AnimeJapan 2021 event on Sunday revealed a promotional video for the television anime of Sana Kirioka's Taisho Otome Otogi Banashi (Taisho Maiden Fairytale) manga.
The event also revealed four more cast members and a new visual.
Yume Miyamoto as Tamako Shima
Chika Anzai as Ryō
Ayasa Itō as Kotori Shiratori
Shunichi Toki as Hakaru Shiratori
The anime will premiere this fall. The anime stars:
Yūsuke Kobayashi as Tamahiko Shima
Saya Aizawa as Yuzuki Tachibana
Jun Hatori is directing the anime at Synergy SP (Cross Game, Major) Mayu Watanabe (Freezing, Freezing Vibration) is designing the characters, and Hiroko Fukuda (Cross Game, Flying Witch) is both writing and overseeing the series scripts. Yasuharu Takanashi (Fairy Tail, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal) is composing the music.
Other staff members include:
- Art Director: Hiroki Matsumoto
- Color Design: Haruko Seto
- Director of Photography: Hiroki Tsubouchi
- Editing: Hideaki Murai
- Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
- Sound Effects: Kaori Yamada
- Sound Production: Bit Groove Promotion
- Music Production: Pony Canyon
Kirioka launched the manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine in 2015, and the fifth and final compiled volume shipped in October 2017.
The manga takes place in Japan's Taisho era, and centers on Tamahiko Shima, a young man who lost the use of his right hand in an accident, and now lives in a rural area of Chiba prefecture to take care of his health. One day he meets the naive and devoted Yuzuki, whom Tamahiko's father bought to be Tamahiko's wife. Through this meeting, the pessimistic and and withdrawn Tamahiko begins to change.
Kirioka serialized the Showa Otome Otogi Banashi sequel manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ website and app, and Shueisha published the manga's fifth and final volume in July 2020.
Update: Added more staff members.
Sources: Pony Canyon's AnimeJapan 2021 livestream, Taisho Otome Otogi Banashi anime's website
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