The official website for the TV light anime adaptation of Yoroida’s #Kanagawa ni Sunderu Elves (Kanagawa Elves) manga series will premiere on December 4 at 12: during TV Kanagawa’s (tvk’s) local midday news and variety program Neko no Hitai Hodo Wide. The cast of the Kanagawa Elves light anime was also revealed alongside a new key visual.
The main cast includes:
- Kōtarō Nishiyama as Yōsei-san and narrator
- Yūsuke Nagano as Elf from Yokosuka
- Yūki Inoue as Elf from Sagamihara
- Gō Fujii as Orc from Machida
Chiaki Kobayashi voices the protagonist “Elf from Yokohama” and Yuu Hayashi voices “the Human from Kawasaki.” Both of the voice actors hail from Kanagawa Prefecture, with Kobayashi from Yokohama city and Hayashi from Zama city.
Yūji Umoto directs the light anime series at IMAGICA Infos and Imageworks Studio. Taeko Miura is the sound director, Shin Kawamoto is the music composer, and Kazuya Takahashi is the production supervisor. What’s more, Usagiou is credited for animation production assistance.
Yoroida launched the Kanagawa Elves manga series on Comic Elmo in August 2020. Micro Magazine published the manga series’ first compiled book volume in 2021. The fifth volume on March 10.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga, via Manga Dex:
2 years ago, the elves who lived in the hidden forest lost their homes due to a forest fire. Now they are living in the Kanagawa Prefecture.
This story however focus on a human who is becoming a roommate to an elf in an apartment.