The staff of the television anime
adaptation
of
Hari Tokeino
's
Gakuen Babysitters
manga revealed four more cast members on Saturday.
Satomi Akesaka
as Maria Inomata
Toshiyuki Someya
as Tomoya Yagi
Motohiro ?ta
as Ch?kichi Nezu
Kaede Hondo
as Yuki Ushimaru
The anime will premiere in Japan on
Tokyo MX
at 11:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 7, and on
Sun TV
and
BS11
at 12:00 a.m. and 12:30 a.m., respectively, on Wednesday, January 10. The anime will have an advance screening event for the first two episodes at
TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku
in Tokyo on January 4, and the main cast will appear for a talk show.
The cast includes:
Sh?sei Morishita
is
directing
the anime at animation studio
Brains Base
.
Yuuko Kakihara
(
Chihayafuru 2
,
Orange
) is handling series composition,
Satoshi Motoyama
(
Aho Girl
,
Skip Beat!
) is serving as sound director, and
Mina ?sawa
(sub-character designer/chief animation director on
Kiss Him, Not Me
) is designing the characters.
Ruka Kawada
(
Is the order a rabbit?
,
Kiss Him, Not Me
) is composing the show's music.
Daisuke Ono
is
performing
the opening theme song "Endless happy world" as his character Saikawa, and the unit Hyorotto Danshi ? comprised of
K?tar? Nishiyama
(Ry?ichi) and
Y?ichir? Umehara
(Hayato) ? is performing the ending theme song "Oshiete yo" (Tell Me).
The manga
centers
on the brothers Ry?ichi and Kotar? Kashima. Ry?ichi is in high school and Kotar? is still a toddler. After their parents are killed in a plane crash, the two brothers find themselves living with the chairwoman of the Morinomiya Academy, who herself lost her son and daughter-in-law in the same accident. The chairwoman, however, has one stipulation for the brothers in order to live with her: Ry?ichi has to work at the academy's daycare center as a babysitter.
The manga received a special chapter in the January 2018 issue of
Hakusensha
's
LaLa DX
magazine, which shipped on Saturday. Tokeino launched the series in
Hakusensha
's
LaLa
magazine in 2009, and
Hakusensha
published the 15th compiled volume on October 5. A drama CD featuring the cast of the anime will ship with the 16th manga volume on January 4.
The 17th compiled volume of the manga will receive a special edition in collaboration with
Sanrio
. The teaser image shows the characters in costumes of various popular
Sanrio
characters, including Midori as Kuromi, Kirin as
My Melody
, Kotar? as Cinnamoroll, Takuma as Keroppi, Kazuma as Tuxedo Sam, and Taka as Pompompurin. The 17th volume will ship on March 5.
Source:
Animate Times