The official website for the television anime
adaptation
of
Masakuni Igarashi
's
Senry? Sh?jo
(
Senry? Girl
) manga revealed four new cast members and a new visual for the series on Thursday.
Sayuri Yahagi
as Amane Katagiri
Rikako Aida
as Koto ?tsuki
Misaki Kuno
as Kino Yakobe
Sumire Uesaka
as Tao Hanakai
Previously revealed cast includes:
Kana Hanazawa
as Nanako Yukishiro
Tasuku Hatanaka
as Eiji Busujima
The anime will premiere in April, and will air on
MBS
,
TBS
, and
BS-TBS
' "Animeism" programming block.
Masato Jinbo
(
Shomin Sample
,
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!!
,
Restaurant to Another World
) is directing the anime at
CONNECT
, and is also credited for supervising the series scripts.
Maki Hashimoto
(animation director on
Restaurant to Another World
,
BONJOUR Sweet Love Patisserie
,
Yona of the Dawn
) is designing the characters.
The manga
centers
on Nanako Yukishiro and Eiji Busujima. Nanako is a girl who can only communicate what she wants to say by using
senry?
(a poetry style similar to haiku more focused on humor). Eiji is an intimidating but kind boy who is a member of the school literature club. The manga tells the story of the pair's cheerful everyday interactions through 17 syllables.
Igarashi
launched
the manga in
Weekly Sh?nen Magazine
in October 2016.
Kodansha
published the manga's seventh compiled volume on December 17. The series has more than 500,000 copies in print. The manga
ranked
at #16 in the printed manga category of last year's Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards in August.
Sources:
Senry? Sh?jo
anime's
website
,
MoCa News
,
Comic Natalie