A few dimension-crossing idols are making their début!
Yesterday, the official Dream Festival! website updated with new details on the upcoming second season of the project’s anime adaptation. Five cast members, as well as a key visual were officially unveiled for the show, titled Dream Festival! R.
Casting
The new cast members will appear in two new idol units: “senpai” idol group ACE, and “Sankishi”.
The breakdown is as follows:
ACE
- Asuma Ogasawara: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
- Chikage Saotome: Atsushi Abe
- Eiji Katsuragi: Junji Majima
Dear Dream
- Makoto Susa: Fumihiko Tachiki
- Ichika Saotome: Hikaru Midorikawa
Key Visual
The new visual shows idol groups ACE (top) and Dear Dream (Bottom), with their new members.
Dream Festival! R will première on August 23, at 9:00PM. The Animate Channel will distribute the title digitally in Japan. A TV broadcast will kick off in October.
Dream Festival! adapts Bandai Namco’s all-male “2.5D Idol project.” The project underwent a slight branding change with the new reveal, and now refers to itself as a “5D Idol Support Project” (2D idols + 3D cast = 5 Dimensions).
Yūta Murano (Brave Beats) is returning to the director’s chair at Bandai Namco Pictures, with Yayoi Yoshikawa providing character designs. Yoichi Kato (Aikatsu!, Yo-kai Watch) will return to tackle series composition.
The team of Ken Ito and Ryo Takahashi will score the show’s soundtrack.
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Chizuru Sawamura: Kaoru Masaki
- Junya Sasaki: Kentarō Tomita
- Itsuki Katagiri: Masaki Ōta
- Kanade Amamiya: Sōma Ishihara
- Shin Oikawa: Takuya Mizoguchi
- Chikage Saotome: Atsushi Abe
- Makoto Suza: Fumihiko Tachiki
- Yūto Kuroishi: Hideaki Kabumoto
- Ichika Saotome: Hikaru Midorikawa
- Eiji Katsuragi: Junji Majima
- Keigo Kazama: Kimito Totani
- Asuma Ogasawara: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
- Haruto Mikami: Toshiyuki Morikawa
Crunchyroll streamed the original Dream Festival! anime as part of their Fall 2016 simulcast lineup. The describe the show as:
The Dream Festival is the stage that all idols dream of singing on, with their professional debut on the line. In order to get there, idols work their hardest every day to perfect their performance… and the key to coming out on top is the Dream Festival! Cards sent by fans to their favorite idols. Receiving these Cards makes the idols who make it to the stage shine even brighter. Now head to the Dream Festival with your Dream Festival Card in hand for the idol you love most!
Source: ATPress
