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Kannagi Director, Idolm@ster Writer Make 'Wake Up, Girls!' Anime
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The production company The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, fifth from the left in photograph).
On Monday, Avex and 81 Produce launched open auditions for new female talent who will not only star as the main characters of the new anime, but also sing the anime's theme song. The Megumi Toyoguchi.
Kato (first from the left in photograph) and Avex talent Kaori Fukuhara (second from the left in photograph) appeared at Monday's press conference as "official ers" of the new anime; they will not necessarily be in the new anime's cast. The anime's key visual showed seven girls, but the staff emphasized that it is not certain if the final group will still have seven girls.
The new anime is tentatively set in the Tohoku region, an area that was heavily affected by the earthquake of March 11, 2011. Yamamoto anime for the region.
This is the second time Avex and 81 Produce worked together to audition new talent this way; the six winners of the first Battle Spirits: Sword Eyes anime which premiered on Sunday.
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