The staff of the TV anime adaptation of Kazune Kawahara’s A Star Brighter Than the Sun manga series announced the anime will begin streaming on Prime Video starting October 3 at 12:56 a.m. JST. Before the Prime Video premiere, A Star Brighter Than the Sun premieres on October 2 at 11:56 p.m. on TBS and affiliate channels in Japan.
Motohiro Hata performs the opening theme song “Stellar Days.” In addition, Wanuka performs the ending theme song “Saishin-wa (Latest Episode).”
The cast of A Star Brighter Than the Sun anime includes:
- Minori Fujidera as Sae Iwata
- Yūki Ono as Kōki Kamishiro
- Taito Ban as Yōta Ayukawa
- Hina Yomiya as Hisui Onodera
- Mutsumi Tamura as Mio Kagawa
- Ryōta Ōsaka as Yūshin Izawa
- Haruka Shiraishi as Subaru Kamishiro
Aya Kobayashi is directing the anime at Studio KAI. Yasuhiro Nakanishi is handling the series scripts, while Jin Feng Zeng handles the character design. What’s more, Natsumi Tabuchi and Miki Sakurai are composing the music.
Kazune Kawahara initially released the series in Shueisha’s Bessatsu Margaret magazine in 2021. VIZ Media publishes the series in English physically at retail and digitally. Here’s a description of the series’ first volume, via VIZ Media:
Sae and Koki have been friends since childhood. One fateful day at the end of middle school, she has a revelation: Koki has grown up! Now they’re in high school, and she has another revelation: she has feelings for Koki! But Sae isn’t the only girl who does… The question is, who does Koki have feelings for?!
