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Aniplus Asia Airs Simulcast of The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls U149 Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda

The anime will premiere in Japan on April 5.
The cast are:
- Amina Satō as Arisu Tachibana
- Haruka Terui as Momoka Sakurai
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Miria Akagi
- matoba
- Haru Yūki
- Asaka Imai as Chie Sasaki
- Natsumi Haruse as Kaoru Ryuzaki
- Misaki Kuno as Nina Ichihara
- ???? as Koharu Koga (performer is not listed yet)
- Yūki Yonai as Producer

The other staff include:
- Concept Art: Kinichi Okubo
- Design Works: Michiko Makita
- Art Setting: Kazushige Kanehira
- Art Director: Kazuhiro Inoue
- Color Key Artist: Makiko Doi
- 3D CG: Masamune Sakaki
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yoshihiro Sekiya
- Editing: Akinori Mishima
- Sound Director: Manabu Okamoto
- Music: Nippon Columbia
The manga centers around girls under 149 centimeters tall (under about 4-feet, 11-inches) who aspire to be idols despite not having a producer or gigs. However, maybe with a marvelous dress, a marvelous stage, and a marvelous prince ... The new Cinderella story follows these small idols and their small rookie producer.
Kyowno launched the manga on Cycomi service in 2016, and Cygames published the fourth volume in October 2018.
The IDOLM@STER Shiny Colors, a mobile game and the most recent entirely new entry in the franchise, with new female idols and a return to gameplay features from the first two games.
The first anime adaptation for the franchise was 2007's Idolmaster: Xenoglossia, a spinoff anime adaptation.
The first mobile phone social game for The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls game launched for iOS and Android devices in 2015 and is still continuing.
The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls also received a 10th anniversary "celebration animation" that featured all 190 idols this summer. Cygames Pictures animated the video.
Source: Aniplus-Asia's Facebook page
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