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Tsuki ga Kirei Anime Gets New Visual, April 6 Premiere


On a cool winter’s night, the moon hangs low over a small town, and it’s beautiful.

Earlier today, the official Tsuki ga Kirei (The Moon is Beautiful) anime website updated with the show’s première schedule. The series will air on the following networks:

  • Tokyo MX: 4/6/2017 at 24:00 (4/7/2017 at midnight)
  • MBS: 4/8/2017 at 26:28 (4/9/2017 at 2:28AM)
  • BS11: 4/9/2017 at 25:30 (4/10/2017 at 1:30AM)
  • TV Aichi: 4/10/2017 at 26:05 (4/11/2017 at 2:05AM)

A visual was also released on March 3, which you can check out below:

Tsuki ga Kirei will hit Japanese TV in April. Seiji Kishi (Angel Beats!, Yuki Yuna Is A Hero) was tapped to direct the series, while Yuuko Kakihara (Digimon Adventure tri., Orange) will tackle series composition. loundraw is providing original character designs on the project. Studio Flying Dog is producing the show’s music.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • Chinatsu Nishio: Rie Murakawa
  • Kotaro Azumi: Shoya Chiba
  • Akane Mizuno: Konomi Kohara
  • Takumi Hira: Atsushi Tamaru
  • Aira Miyamoto: Kaori Ishihara
  • Aoi Takizawa: Haruka Shiraishi
  • Ayane Mizuno: Ryoko Maekawa
  • Daichi Ogasawara: Makoto Kaneko
  • Daisuke Tachibana: Mutsuki Iwanaka
  • Hiroshi Mizuno: Mitsuo Iwata
  • Junko Azumi: Kikuko Inoue
  • Miu Imazu: Haruka Chisuga
  • Roman Yamashina: Eishin Fudemura
  • Ryouko Sonoda: Nao Touyama
  • Ryuunosuke Azumi: Kazuo Oka
  • Sakura Tanaka: Honoka Inoue
  • Saori Mizuno: Chiwa Saito
  • Setsuko Satou: Misono Suzuki
  • Shou Nagahara: Yuuya Hirose
  • Tsubasa Kaneko: Kentaro Kumagai
  • Yasuhito Inaba: Mark Ishii

Tsuki ga Kirei is an original project from Studio feel. The series is described as:

Kotarou Azumi and Akane Mizuno are entering their third year of junior high and, for the first time, are sharing a class together. These two, along with fellow classmates Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, find ways to relate to their peers through mutual emotions and understandings.

Source: Anime! Anime!

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