The official English Instagram account for the anime adaptation of Yūki Suenaga and illustrator Takamasa Moue’s Akane-banashi manga confirmed that Netflix will begin streaming the anime on May 17. The first two episodes of Akane-banashi will be available at once with English subtitles and an English dub, with weekly episodes to follow.
New Akane-banashi episodes will release on Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET.
Multi-instrumentalist Keisuke Kuwata performs the opening theme song “Hitotarashi.”
The cast and staff of the Akane-banashi anime include:
Cast
- Anna Nagase as Akane Sakurazaka
- Takuya Eguchi as Karashi Nerimaya
- Rie Takahashi as Hikaru Koragi
- Jun Fukuyama as Shinta Arakawa (Toru Osaki)
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Maikeru Arakawa
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Koguma Arakawa
- Yohei Azakami as Kyoji Arakawa
- Seiichiro Yamashita as Guriko Arakawa
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Zenshō Arakawa
- Hiroaki Hirata as Ikken Arakawa
- Shizuka Itō as Masaki Ōsaki
- Yumiko Konatsu as Saki Yoshino
- Ryōta Iwasaki as Kimihisa Kashio
Staff
- Original Work: Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue
- Director: Ayumu Watanabe
- Assistant Director: Yu Harima
- Series Composer: Michihiro Tsuchiya
- Character Design & Chief Animation Director: Kii Tanaka
- Sub Character Design & Chief Animation Director: Yasunari Nitta
- Chief Animation Director: Hisashi Kagawa
- Costume Design: Noriko Shimazawa
- Prop Design: Yoshinori Iwanaga
- Art Design: Shuhei Tada
- Art: Takumi Sakurada
- Color Design: Saori Goda
- Photography Director: Yuta Nakamura
- Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Sound Director: Noriyoshi Konuma
- Music: Akio Izutsu
- Rakugo Supervision: Kikuhiko Hayashiya
- Animation Studio: ZEXCS
The Akane-banashi anime is streaming in the following regions and platforms:
- Worldwide: Netflix (territories outside of Asia will begin from May)
- North and South America: Akane-banashi Global YouTube channel (free)
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland: aniverse
- France, Monaco, Andorra, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg: ADN
- Spain: Anime Box
- Italy: Anime Generation
- Asia Pacific (excluding Korea and China): Ani-One YouTube
- Taiwan: Bahamut, ChungHwa Telecom MOD & Hami Video, LiTV & Ofiii, Line TV, My-Video, Catchplay, friDay
- Hong Kong, Macao: Bahamut
- Indonesia: Catchplay
- Thailand: TrueID
- Mongolia: playmax.mn STAR TV
- South Korea: Laftel, Aniplus Channel
In Japan, the anime is airing on TV Asahi’s IMAnimation programming block.
Yūki Suenaga and Takamasa Moue launched the Akane-banashi manga in February 2022. Viz Media releases the manga in English and describes the story as follows:
Akane unintentionally stirs up a scandal when she’s discovered taking informal lessons from her father’s former teacher, Shiguma Arakawa. And she’s about to make even bigger waves because she is about to begin her first steps in climbing the ranks of a rakugo performer from zenza opening act to shin’uchi headliner is exchanging her secret lessons for formal training. But she’ll still have to finish high school and navigate her relationship with Shiguma’s existing apprentices, all while learning that becoming a stellar rakugoka takes much more than just being good at performing!
