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Mix Anime Gets New Visual & Cast Member


Earlier today, the official Mix anime website updated with a new key visual and cast member. We break the details down below.

Key Visual

The image features Tōma, Sōichirō, Otomi, and Haruka laying on a green field, as cherry blossom petals drift from above.

Mix Anime Visual

Cast

The series will add the following:

  • Haruka Ōyama: Kana Hanazawa

Mix will air in April on NTV and YTV. The show is slated to be shown on Saturdays in the 17:30 (5:30PM) block.

Mix Anime VisualOdahiro Watanabe (Tokyo Ghoul:re, Soul Buster) was tapped to direct the project at OLM, with Takao Maki (Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls, Laughing Under The Clouds) providing character designs. Atsuhiro Tomioka (Pokémon: Black and White, Ray) is in charge of series composition. Other confirmed crew members include:

  • Script: Chinatsu Houjou
  • Script: Kenichi Yamada
  • Script: Tatsuto Higuchi
  • Script: Yoshifumi Fukushima
  • Music: Norihito Sumitomo

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • Minami Asakura: Noriko Hidaka
  • Tōma Tachibana: Yuuki Kaji
  • Otomi Tachibana: Maaya Uchida
  • Sōichirō Tachibana: Yūma Uchida

Hidaka is reprising her role from the 1985 Touch anime TV series.

Mitsuru Adachi’s Mix launched in the pages of Shogakukan’s Monthly Shōnen Sunday on May 12, 2012. The ongoing series currently spans thirteen volumes, with the latest hitting stores on August 9, 2018.

The title is set thirty years after the events of Touch, and is takes place at Meisei High School. Two stepbrothers, Touma and Souichirou Tachibana, aim to bring the school back to Koshien after their fathers managed to do the same three decades prior.

Source: Comic Natalie

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