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Nanana's Buried Treasure Third 15-Second Promo Streamed
posted on by Karen Ressler
Noitamina began streaming a third 15-second promotional video on Thursday for the upcoming anime Nanana's Buried Treasure the video features the opening theme song "Butterfly Effect" by Shiritsu Ebisu Chūgaku, and announces that the series will begin airing on April 10.
Additionally, the official website now lists additional cast members:
Eri Suzuki (Nagi no Asukara's Kazuyo Kamoto) as Yū Ibara
Mamiko Noto (Kimi ni Todoke's Sawako) as Yukihime Fugi
Kōsuke Toriumi (Danganronpa's Ishimaru) as Shū Todomatsu
Yumi Uchiyama (Good Luck Girl!'s Momiji) as Shiki Mahoro
Kanae Itō (Haganai's Sena Kashiwazaki) as YURiKA Yumeji
Harumi Sakurai (Fairy Tail's Lisanna) as Sansa Kurosu
Yoshimasa Hosoya (Chihayafuru's Arata) as Tetsunoshin Tsujimi
Misaki Kuno (Galilei Donna's Grande Rosso) as Saki Yoshino
Yuuki Hayashi (Strike the Blood's Rō Kirishima) as Kagetora Tozen
Previously announced cast members include:
Rui Tanabe (Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil's Cecil) as Nanana Ryūgajō.
Yūki Ono (Valvrave the Liberator's Kyūma) as Jūgo Yama
Kana Asumi (Hidamari Sketch's Yuno) as Tensai Ikkyū
Kana Hanazawa (Nisekoi's Onodera) as Daruku Hoshino
Kazuyuki Okitsu (Arpeggio of Blue Steel's Chihaya) as Isshin Yūga
Kazuma Ōtorino's original novel centers around the treasure of Nanana, a ghost who was once a beautiful but NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) girl. A boy named Jūgo was disowned by his father and forced to transfer to a high school on the "Special Student Zone," an artificial island. With only 40,000 yen (about US$400) a month to live on, Jūgo chooses a low-rent apartment that happens to be haunted by Nanana. Jūgo and members of the school's adventure club join a "treasure hunt royale" on the island for the Nanana Collection, a treasure that possesses a mysterious power.
Kanta Kamei (Bunny Drop, Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~, Oreshura) will direct the series, and Hideyuki Kurata (Read or Die, Samurai Flamenco, Oreimo) will handle the series composition. Additionally, Tetsuya Kawakami (chief animation director and sub-character design for Sword Art Online) will adapt Akaringo's novel illustrations for animation, and Keigo Hoashi (Dusk maiden of Amnesia) and monaca (Star Driver, Wagnaria!!, Aikatsu!) will handle the music. Voice actress unit Sphere will perform the ending theme "Kasukana Hisokana Tashikana Mirai." A-1 Pictures will animate the series. The studio previously animated a promotional video for the novel in December 2011.
Ōtorino and Akaringo launched the novel series in January 2012, and the seventh installment will ship on March 29. The novel won the top prize in the 13th Enterbrain Entertainment Awards in September 2011. In addition to the novel, Hitoshi Okuda launched a manga version in Kadokawa's Famitsu magazine in January 2012, and Enterbrain published the second compiled volume in March. The first volume of a spinoff novel series, Tensai's Reluctant Deduction, shipped in August.
Additionally, Hakusensha's new Hana to Yume: Bunkei Shōjo manga magazine launched another manga adaptation by Modomu Akagawara on December 20.
