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Domestic Girlfriend Gets 3 Cast Members, January 2019 Premiere


As always, presented without comment.

Earlier today, the official Domestic Girlfriend (Domestic na Kanojo anime website updated with a new key visual, as well as three cast members and information on the show’s premiere date. We break the details down below.

Key Visual

The image features Natsuo sitting on the teacher’s desk in a classroom. He’s flanked by the Tachibana sisters, who are covering his eyes and mouth to evoke a “see no evil, say no evil” gesture.

Domestic Girlfriend Anime Visual

Cast

The series will add the following:

  • Natsuki Fujii: Taku Yashiro
  • Momo Kashiwabara: Haruka Yoshimura
  • Miu Ashihara: Konomi Kohara

Premiere

Domestic Girlfriend will air in January 2019. MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS will all carry the show.

Shōta Ihata (Girlish Number) was tapped to direct the project at diomedea, with Naomi Ide (KanColle, Riddle Story of Devil) providing character designs. Tatsuya Takahashi (And you thought there is never a girl online?, Beatless) is in charge of series comopsition for the title.

Domestic Girlfriend Anime VisualThe series will star the following:

  • Hina Tachibana: Yōko Hikasa
  • Rui Tachibana: Maaya Uchida

Kei Sasuga’s Domestic Girlfriend launched in the pages of Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine in July 2014. To date, 17 volumes have been released, with volume 18 slated to ship to retailers on July 14.

Kodansha Comics currently holds the rights to the title in North America, and describes it as:

High schooler Natsuo is hopelessly in love with his cheerful and popular teacher, Hina. However, one day at a mixer, he meets a moody girl by the name of Rui and ends up sleeping with her. Soon after, his father announces that he’s getting remarried to a woman with two daughters of her own. And who shows up in tow, other than both Hina and Rui?! Natsuo’s outrageous new life starts now!

Sources: Anime! Anime!, Mantan Web, Comic Natalie

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