Kadokawa revealed the third promotional video, a new visual (a composite of the previously released character visuals), additional cast members, and April 9 premiere for the television anime of Takako Shimura’s Scenes From Awajima (Awajima Hyakkei) manga on Sunday. The new video reveals and previews the ending theme song “Hikari” (Light) by Mika Nakashima.
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The newly announced cast members are:
Kana Ichinose as Sara Takanashi
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Risa Shimizu as Eri Fujisawa
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Asuna Tomari as Shizuka Gagakugawa
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The anime will debut on April 9 on Fuji TV and other networks at 25:45 JST (effectively April 10 at 1:45 a.m.).
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The anime will star:
Morio Asaka (Chihayafuru, NANA, Galaxy Angel) is directing the anime at Madhouse. Kunihiko Hamada (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Chihayafuru, NANA) is designing the characters, and Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Chained Soldier, Shy, My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999) is in charge of series scripts. Hideki Nakamura (INU-OH film, Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway film, Inuyashiki Last Hero) is the art director, Junko Sakai (My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999, Your Forma, Bibliophile Princess) is the compositing director of photography, and Takahiro Obata (Cinderella Nine, The Promised Neverland, SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary) is composing the music. Harue Ono is the color designer. Hana Hope performs the opening theme song “Blue Hour.”
Yen Press licensed the manga in July and released the first volume on January 20. The company describes the series:
Awajima Opera School—where countless girls from across the country flock in hopes of one day standing on the big stage. As they work toward achieving their dreams of stardom, their time at Awajima is filled with as much friendship and admiration as competition and jealousy. The precious feelings of girls who are at once both classmates and rivals, tenderly captured in the portraits of an ensemble cast!
Shimura (Wandering Son, Sweet Blue Flowers, Even Though We’re Adults) launched the manga in Ohta Publishing’s PocoPoco website in July 2011. The manga moved to Ohta Web Comic in July 2016. The manga went on hiatus in 2019, and resumed after three years, with a monthly serialization in January 2022. The manga again went on hiatus in August 2022, and resumed in November 2023. The manga ended in March 2024.
Ohta Publishing released the manga’s fifth and final compiled book volume in May 2024.
Source: Press release
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