The staff of the TV anime adaptation of Chinkururi and Yasutaka Isegawa’s Gacha Girls Corps light novel series confirmed the anime’s January 7 premiere. Two new cast members from the idol group ≒JOY were also announced alongside a new key visual.
The new cast members include:
- Aimi Ozawa as Miguel
- Renon Esumi as Lennon
The Gacha Girls Corps anime premieres on January 7 at 9:25 p.m. JST / 7:25 a.m. EST on the Tokyo MX channel. The anime will also air on Hokkaido Broadcasting Co., Ltd., RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, BS11, and AT-X.
The cast of the anime includes:
- Daisuke Sakaguchi as Heihachi Okura
- Miyu Tomita as Norl Fanya (name romanization not confirmed)
- Iori Noguchi as Estel
- Ai Kayano as Shisuha Alvy
- Rie Kugimiya as Luna Varedas
The staff includes:
- Chief Director: Masahiro Takada
- Director: Takashi Asami
- Series Composition: Deko Akao
- Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Miori Suzuki
- Monster Design: Tomoyuki Abe
- Prop Design Support: Shiori Kōno
- Art Director: Kenta Tsuboi
- Background Art: Minami Takizawa (name romanization not confirmed)
- Color Design: Akiko Inoue
- Director of Photography: Kōsuke Tanaka
- Offline Editing: Masaki Utsunomiya
- Offline Editing Assistant: Asuka Kojima
- Sound Director: Nobuyuki Abe
- Sound Production: On-Lead
- Music: Hiroaki Tsutsumi, George King
- Music Producer: Takahiro Ikeda
- Background Music Production Cooperation: MIRACLE BUS
- Music Production: Starry Cube
- Animation Production: Zero-G× Saber Works
- Producer: Ryō Aizawa (Starry Cube)
- Executive Producer: Kōichirō Natsume
Chinkururi launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in January 2016, and the series is still ongoing. Syū Haruno launched the manga adaptation in 2020, which was licensed by Kaiten Books. Omoi releases the manga digitally in English.
Here’s an overview of the manga, via Kaiten Books:
UR-GUARANTEED—TO HAVE THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME!
Ready for an adventure that’s out of this world? We’ve gacha covered.
Norl’s a cutting-edge cutie with a cutting edge who’s a cut above the rest. Heihachi’s just your average mobile game addict with a whale-sized hole in his wallet.
But one day, he pulls an item that pulls him into another world, spinning his life around with a spin of the gacha.
Attacked by monsters, and left without options, Heihachi does what he knows best—roll gacha! To his surprise, he watches his unit materialize before his eyes. Heihachi’s used to seeing cute girls pop up on his phone, but he’s never seen one pop out of his phone!
Join him on his quest to collect OP UR QTs! (That’s Overpowered Ultra Rare Cuties.)
