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YU-NO Anime Gets New Visual, 11 Cast Members

Written By Samantha Ferreira January 31, 2019

Earlier today, the official YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World anime website update updated with a new key visual, as well as eleven cast members and details on the show’s theme songs. We break the details down below.

Key Visual

The image features head shots of the main cast members, surrounding a full-body image of Takuya Arima.

Cast

The series will star the following:

Takuya Arima: Yuu Hayashi
Yu-No: Ari Ozawa
Kanna Hatano: Maaya Uchida
Mitsuki Ichijō: Saori Ōnishi
Mio Shimazu: Rie Kugimiya
Eriko Takeda: Yu Kobayashi
Kaori Asakura: Rena Maeda
Ayumi Arima: Kaori Nazuka
Kōzō Ryūzōji: Taiten Kusunoki
Masakatsu Yūki: Yuuki Fujiwara
Hideo Toyotomi: Takuya Eguchi

All eleven cast members are reprising their roles from the PlayStation 4 and Vita remake of the game.

Theme Songs

Asaka will perform opening theme song Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shojo (A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World). Ending theme song Shinri no Kagami, Ken no Yo ni (Mirror of Truth, Like the Sword) will be performed by Konomi Suzuki.

YU-NO hits Japanese TV in April. The show is slated to run for two cours, with a total of 26 episodes.

Tetsuo Hirakawa (Grimoire of Zero, Hori-san to Miyamura-kun) was tapped to direct the project at studio feel., with Mai Otsuka (Non Non Biyori, Shakugan no Shana) providing character designs. Studio GENCO is listed as producer.

Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shōjo YU-NO was first released on the PC-98, where it received critical acclaim. 5pb. later ported the title to the Sega Saturn in 1997, followed by a PC release in 2000.

The title received a remake by MAGES and 5pb., which hit Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Vita in March. The remake saw both the PS4 and Vita SKUs land on the Media Create charts in its début week. The PS4 version of the game took top honors at 13th place, with 9,629 units sold. The Vita version wasn’t far behind, though, and placed at 15th with 8,858 sales. Combined the two SKUs shifted 18,487 copies.

In 1999, the game was adapted to an adults-only (read: hentai) OVA series in 1999. The title, which was produced by Pink Pineapple, ran for four episodes. NuTech Digital released the title in the west.

Source: Ota-suke

Filed Under: News Reporting

Tag(s): casting, feel., key visual, theme songs, yu-no

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Samantha Ferreira

Samantha Ferreira is Anime Herald’s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. She’s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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