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Miyu Tomita Performs Opening Theme for Hōkago Saikoro Club Anime
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Music label Nippon Columbia announced on Thursday that voice actress Miyu Tomita will perform the opening theme song "Present Moment" for the television anime of Hirō Nakamichi's Hōkago Saikoro Club (Afterschool Dice Club) manga. Tomita's debut single with the song will ship on November 13.
The anime will premiere in October, and stars:
Saki Miyashita as Miki
Marika Kōno as Aya
Miyu Tomita as Midori
Takaya Kuroda as shop owner Takeru Kinjō
Kenichi Imaizumi (Reborn!, Student Council's Discretion Lv. 2, Komori-san Can't Decline) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Atsushi Maekawa (The Prince of Tennis, Fresh Pretty Cure, Hunter × Hunter) is in charge of series composition. Yukiko Ibe (Onigiri, Nanatsuiro Drops, Magical Girl Ore) is designing the characters. Shūji Katayama (Overlord, Saga of Tanya the Evil) of Team-MAX is composing the music.
Nakamichi launched the manga in Monthly Shonen Sunday in March 2013. Sugorokuya is credited with cooperation on the manga.
The manga centers on Aya, who moves and starts to attend an all-girls high school in Kyoto. Her first friend is her reserved classmate Miki. After school one day, the committee chairwoman Midori takes them both to an analogue game specialty shop called "Saikoro Club" (Dice Club). There, they start playing a German board game without thinking. Thus begins Aya and Miki's search for fun through the world of analogue games.
Sources: Nippon Columbia, MoCa News