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The Morose Mononokean TV Anime Adds Yōkai Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the television Fukigen na Mononokean) manga revealed more cast for the anime on Thursday. The additional cast for the yōkai appearing in the series includes:
Kazuya Ichijou as Mitsuchigura
Masaki Terasoma as Manjirō
Kishō Taniyama as Jōmatsu
Saori Ōnishi as Anmo-hime
Nobuo Tobita as Nobō
Tomomichi Nishimura as Okina
Yūki Kaji will play Hanae Ashiya. Other cast include:
- Ayahi Takagaki as Zenko Fujiwara
- Ikue Ōtani as Yahiko
- Yōko Hikasa as Kōra
- Chinami Hashimoto as Shizuku
- Junichi Suwabe as Rippō
Boruto -Naruto the Movie-) is composing the music.
The additional staff includes:
- Art Director: Tomohiro Ono
- Color Design: Miyuki Abe
- Sound Director: Hiroto Morishita
- CG for Yōkai and others: Dandelion Animation Studio)
Two-man unit debut with the show's opening theme song, titled "Tomodachi Meter" (Friend Meter). The duo will release their single for the song on July 20.
The anime will AT-X, and other channels.
An advance screening event of the anime's first two episodes will take place on June 4 at United Cinemas Toyosu in Tokyo. Yūki Kaji and Tomoaki Maeno, who play the anime's main characters, will be in attendance for a talk event. A drama CD with an original story will be offered during the event, after which it will go on sale on June 24.
A stage play adaptation will run at the Akasaka Red Theater in Tokyo from September 7-11.
publishing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the manga's first volume:
Ashiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a yōkai attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tea room called "Mononokean" for help. This is volume 1 of the mysterious stories involving the very morose owner of Mononokean guiding the yōkai that happened to wander into this world go to the next world.
Wazawa launched the manga in Gangan Online web manga site in 2013. Square Enix published the manga's fifth compiled book volume last November, and it will publish the sixth volume in June.
Source: Comic Natalie
