A special stage panel for the anime adaptation of the late manga creator Hisaya Nakajo’s Hana-Kimi manga revealed a new promotional video. The video confirmed the anime’s January 4 premiere date and introduced a new cast member. Additionally, the video previews the ending theme song, “Baby,” and the opening theme song, “Adrena,” both of which will be performed by YOASOBI.
Check out the video below:
The cast of the Hana-Kimi anime include:
- Aya Yamane as Mizuki Ashiya
- Taku Yashiro as Izumi Sano
- Kikunosuke Toya as Shuichi Nakatsu
- Yūichirō Umehara as Minami Nanba
- Jun Fukuyama as Hokuto Umeda
- Reiji Kawashima as Senri Nakao
- Kōki Uchiyama as Daiki Kayashima
- Wataru Komada as Kyogo Sekime
- Anan Furuya as Shinji Noe
- Kōtarō Nishiyama as Wataru Nihonbashi
- Yūko Natsuyoshi as Julia M. (Maxwell)
- Satoshi Hino joins the cast as Makoto Kagurazaka (new)
Natsuki Takemura directs the anime at Signal.MD, and Shigeru Ueda is the assistant director. Takao Yoshioka is in charge of series scripts, Shi Yi Su is the character designer, Masaru Yokoyama is the music composer, and Jin Aketagawa is the sound director.
What’s more, Crunchyroll will stream the new Hana-Kimi anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, and India.
Hisaya Nakajo published the Hana-Kimi manga in Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume magazine from 1996 to 2004. A total of 23 volumes were released in Japan, with VIZ Media releasing the English edition of the manga. Nakajo passed away at the age of 50 in October 2023, and her legacy continues with the new anime series.
Viz Media describes the series as follows:
Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself to transfer to a high school in Japan…but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she’s going to an all-guys’ high school…and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they’re more than classmates…they’re roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates–and the school nurse–must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation…
