The official website for the TV anime of Yama Wayama’s Let’s Go Karaoke! and Captivated, by You manga announced the Let’s Go Karaoke! anime will premiere first on July 24 on TV Tokyo. Let’s Go Karaoke! will also air on BS11, Kansai TV, Nagoya TV, HBC Hokkaido Broadcasting, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting, and the Captivated, by You anime follow up with its premiere on August 21.
Asami Nakatani directs the anime at Dōga Kōbō with assistant director Yukiko Tsukahara. Yoshimi Narita oversees the series scripts, Mai Matsuura is the character designer, and Takurō Iga is the composer.
The cast of Let’s Go Karaoke! includes:
- Shun Horie as Satomi Oka
- Daisuke Ono as Kyouji Narita
- Shinnosuke Tokudome as Wada
The cast of Captivated, by You includes:
- Kenshō Ono as Miyoshi Hayashi
- Kōki Uchiyama as Jōji Ema
- Yūki Ono as Yuichi Medaka
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Akira Nikaidou
Lastly, here’s an overview of each series, via publisher Yen Press:
Let’s Go Karaoke!
Nothing worries Satomi Oka more than the upcoming final choir competition of his middle school career — right up until he is accosted by a stranger from the shadows who demands, “Let’s go karaoke!” As a yakuza, Kyouji Narita doesn’t scare easily, but a terrifying prospect has driven him to seek Satomi’s help. The boss is holding a karaoke contest, with the loser forced to get a tattoo to be selected and torturously applied by the boss himself! Oka has been to many vocal rehearsals over the years, but never one-on-one karaoke sessions with a gangster!!
Captivated, by You
Hayashi’s frank, guileless demeanor quietly draws the attention of classmates and strangers as he counts all the stairs in school, photographs street signs, and dries sweet potatoes on the classroom balcony. In a world shaped by conformity, Hayashi is refreshingly and unapologetically true to himself. Conversely, Nikaidou has worked very hard to perfect a gloomy, dour façade that keeps his classmates far, far away. While much of the school regards Nikaidou as a bad omen, one student catches a glimpse behind the mask and-undeterred by rumors of bad luck and supernatural powers-begins to pick away Nikaidou’s carefully crafted persona…
