The official website for the television
anime
of
Satsuki Yoshino
's
Handa-kun
manga began
streaming
the anime's first promotional video on Monday. The video reveals the anime's
cast
, staff, theme song
artist
, and July 7 premiere.
The cast includes:
Yoshitaka Koyama
(
Rune Soldier
,
Noramimi
,
Kero Kero Chime
) is directing the anime at
diomedea
, while
Michiko Yokote
(
Shirobako
,
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
,
Dagashi Kashi
) is supervising and penning the series' scripts alongside scriptwriters
Mariko Kunisawa
(
Hatsukoi Limited
,
Magimoji Rurumo
) and
Miharu Hirami
(
Cookin' Idol Ai! Mai! Main!
,
Blue Spring Ride
).
Mayuko Matsumoto
(
Gingitsune
,
Kan Colle
) is designing the characters.
Hany?
is credited for prop design.
Kaori Kikuna
(
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
,
Star Blazers 2199
,
Kan Colle
) is credited as art director, while
Yoko Matsuhara
(
Lovely Complex
,
Arakawa under the Bridge × Bridge
) is credited for color design.
Yasuyuki Itou
(
Gingitsune
,
Kan Colle
,
The Lost Village
) is director of photography, while
Yuuji Oka
(
Fairy Tail
,
Kan Colle
,
Looking Up At The Half-Moon
) is the editor.
Ken It?
(
High School DxD New
) is composing the music at
Lantis
.
Kengo Kawazoe
(
Diabolik Lovers
,
Re-Kan!
,
Komori-san Can't Decline
) is the sound director.
Fo'xTails
is performing the opening theme song "The LiBERTY," with the single CD release slated for August 3.
Kenichi Suzumura
is performing the ending theme song "HIDE-AND-SEEK," with the single CD release slated for August 31.
The anime will premiere on
TBS
and
CBC
on July 7, on
MBS
on July 8, on
BS-TBS
on July 9, and on
TBS Channel 1
on July 17.
The manga is a spinoff of Yoshino's
Barakamon
manga.
Yen Press
has
licensed
Handa-kun
and is releasing it digitally and in print. The company describes the first manga volume:
Handsome teenage calligrapher Sei Handa is worshipped by all his classmates as an aloof superstar--too bad Sei's inherent negativity makes him believe that everyone actually hates him...?! A youthful comedy of misunderstanding and melancholy unfolds in the first volume of this hilarious prequel to
Barakamon
!
Yoshino launched the prequel manga in
Monthly Shonen Gangan
magazine in October 2013, and
Square Enix
published the fifth compiled volume in Japan on February 12.
Yoshino launched the
Barakamon
(pictured at left) slice-of-life comedy manga in
Square Enix
's
Gangan Online
magazine in 2009, and
Square Enix
published the manga's 13th volume on March 12.
Yen Press
is also
publishing
Barakamon
, and it published the tenth volume on Apirl 19. The manga follows the calligrapher Seishuu Handa after he moves to an island on the westernmost edge of Japan, and learns to live a rural life that he hasn't ever experienced before.
Barakamon
inspired
a 12-episode TV anime series that premiered in July 2014.
Crunchyroll
and
Funimation
both
streamed
the series as it aired, and
Funimation
also has the home video rights to the series.
Source:
Comic Natalie