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Seiren Original Anime Reveals 1st 2 Cast Members, Character Designs
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The official website for Kisai Takayama's original anime series Seiren revealed the first two cast members and character designs on Friday. TBS additionally began streaming character videos for the two characters on Friday.
The cast members include:
Ayane Sakura as Hikari Tsuneki, a "modern day meddling princess." She is always cheerful and is the class idol of class 2-B at Teruhi Higashi High School. She was the runner-up of last year's "Miss Santa Contest," and has an exclusive seat on the terrace. She loves to eat, and is occasionally stubborn.
Juri Kimura as Kyouko Touno, a "childhood friend who acts like a student at a girls' middle school." She has been the childhood friend of the protagonist since kindergarten, and they used to play together at a park at the top of the hill. She is an honor student in class 1-A who has excellent grades. On the other hand, she also loves shōjo manga and can also act a bit childish, and has a complex about the two sides of herself.
Takayama is credited with the original work, series composition, and original character designs for the series. Tomoki Kobayashi (Akame ga KILL!, Rozen Maiden) is directing the anime at Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ. Naoto Hosoda (Jinki:Extend, Nagasarete Airantou) is adapting Kobayashi's designs for animation, Satoshi Motoyama (One Week Friends, Little Busters!) is the sound director at Dax Production, and Nobuaki Nobusawa (Dagashi Kashi, Lord Marksman and Vanadis) is composing the music at Pony Canyon.
The anime will premiere in January 2017 on TBS, BS-TBS, and Sun TV.
Takayama is a character designer who has worked on Enterbrain's visual novels, such as True Love Story ~ Summer Days, and yet..., KimiKiss, and Amagami. True Love Story ~ Summer Days, and yet... received a three-episode original video anime project in 2003. KimiKiss inspired a television anime titled Kimikiss pure rouge in 2007. Amagami spawned two television anime titled Amagami SS and Amagami SS+ in 2010 and 2012, respectively.
Source: MoCa News
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