Bandai Namco Filmworks has announced that Studio Pierrot’s original anime Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly will premiere on April 5 and run for two cours, or quarters of a year, with a break in between. The anime will debut on Tokyo MX at 10:30 p.m. JST, followed by ABC TV, TV Aichi, BS NTV, and AT-X after the April 5 premiere.
A new promotional video was also released. The video reveals that the in-story idol Lulutto Lilly performs the ending theme song “Calling.” Lulutto Lilly consists of main characters Lilly Konpeto (voiced by May Tachibana) and Lulu Mashū (voiced by Nao Ojika).
What’s more, early screenings of Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly will be available at 10 AEON Cinema theaters in Japan from March 20 through April 2, and the screenings will also include the first episode of Magical Angel Creamy Mami.
The cast of the Magical Sisters Lulutto Lily anime includes:
- May Tachibana as younger sister Fū Nonoyama / idol form Lily Konpeto
- Nao Ojika as older sister Rui Nonoyama / idol Lulu Mashū
- Hiroki Nanami as feline creature and Felix Star denizen Uguisu
- Ai Kayano as fellow feline creature Azuki
- Fūka Izumi as Tōko Kandachi
- Fū Hirohara as Sena Aozono
- Hikaru Yaotome as Miitaa
- Kōhei Amasaki as Shōta Seo
- Tatsumaru Tachibana as Hisashi Kadoya
- Tomokazu Sugita as Yasuo Kandachi
- Jun Kasama as Keiichi Nonoyama, Fū and Rui’s father (new)
- Megumi Ōhara as Shio Nonoyama, Fū and Rui’s mother (new)
- Aya Endō as Matsuri Hinoura, Dabudabu cafe manager (new)
K-pop girl group ILLIT performs the opening theme song “Bubee.”
Shintarō Dōge is directing the Magical Sisters Lulutto Lily anime at Studio Pierrot and is credited for the original character designs. Yūko Kakihara supervises and writes the series scripts. Namiko Tori, Hirono Nishiki, and Asami Sodeyama are the character designers.
Additional staff members include:
- Magic Character Designer: Tatsuo Yamada
- Prop Design: Mifumi Tomita
- Art Direction: Wataru Osakabe
- Main Animator: Kazuhiro Fukuchi
- Art Director: Yuki Maeda
- Art Setting: Hitomi Itō
- Color Design: Saori Goda
- CG Director: Takahiro Kamiya
- Compositing Director of Photography: Hideki Imaizumi
- Editing: Kengo Shigemura
- Sound Director: Fumihiko Ōtera
- Sound Effects: Yuji Furuya
- Sound Production: Jinnan Studio
- Music: ha-j
- Music Production: Bandai Namco Music Live
The story of the anime focuses on the aforementioned Nonoyama sisters, who have grown a little distant recently. One day, Fū encounters a spaceship and gains magical powers, and Rui also gains magical powers as a result. They both transform into the adults they dream of being, but there are two conditions: the magic can only be used for one year, and it must be kept a secret. The pair become idols, all while keeping their secrets from each other.
