Hana-Kimi TV Anime Reveals More Cast, Main Staff
The newly announced cast are: Natsuki Takemura (Go! Go! Vehicle Zoo director, Dragon Goes House-Hunting episode director) is directing the anime at Signal.MD, and Shigeru Ueda (To Love-Ru, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode director) is the assistant director. Takao Yoshioka (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, Horimiya: The Missing Pieces) is in charge of series scripts, Shi Yi Su (Dragon Goes House-Hunting) is designing the characters, Masaru Yokoyama (Arakawa Under the Bridge, Horimiya: The Missing Pieces, 2022 & 2024 Urusei Yatsura) is composing the music, and Jin Aketagawa (86, Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc, Golden Kamuy) is the sound director.The anime had its episode 1 world premiere at the Anime NYC event on Saturday. The anime stars: Crunchyroll will stream the anime when it premieres in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, the CIS, and India.Nakajo died at 50 years old in October 2023 due to a heart condition.Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e (Hana-Kimi) was Nakajo's defining work, running in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine from 1996 to 2004. Nakajo ran a short continuation of the Hana-Kimi manga in 2011, and published a special chapter in 2014. Her latest update to the series was Himitsu - Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e After School, which debuted in 2021. Viz Media published the Hana-Kimi manga in North America, and also published her Sugar Princess manga. Viz Media describes Hana-Kimi:The manga inspired a 2007 live-action television series and a second live-action series starring AKB48 idol group member Atsuko Maeda in 2011. Besides the two Japanese live-action television series, the manga also inspired a live-action television version in South Korea and a 2006 live-action television version in Taiwan.Sources: Hana-Kimi anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
