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Barakamon Spinoff Anime Handa-kun's Video Shows Cast, Staff, Song Artists, July 7 Premiere
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The official website for the television Handa-kun manga began streaming the anime's first promotional video on Monday. The video reveals the anime's cast, staff, theme song artist, and July 7 premiere.
The cast includes:
Kazuyuki Okitsu as Takao Kawafuji
Tetsuya Kakihara as Reo Nikaido
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Akane Tsutsui
Komori-san Can't Decline) is the sound director.
Kenichi Suzumura is performing the ending theme song "HIDE-AND-SEEK," with the single CD release slated for August 31.
The anime will premiere on TBS Channel 1 on July 17.
The manga is a spinoff of Yoshino's licensed Handa-kun and is releasing it digitally and in print. The company describes the first manga volume:
Handsome teenage calligrapher Sei Handa is worshipped by all his classmates as an aloof superstar--too bad Sei's inherent negativity makes him believe that everyone actually hates him...?! A youthful comedy of misunderstanding and melancholy unfolds in the first volume of this hilarious prequel to Barakamon!
Yoshino launched the prequel manga in Square Enix published the fifth compiled volume in Japan on February 12.
Yoshino launched the Barakamon (pictured at left) slice-of-life comedy manga in Square Enix's publishing Barakamon, and it published the tenth volume on Apirl 19. The manga follows the calligrapher Seishuu Handa after he moves to an island on the westernmost edge of Japan, and learns to live a rural life that he hasn't ever experienced before.
Barakamon streamed the series as it aired, and Funimation also has the home video rights to the series.
Source: Comic Natalie
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