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TsukiPro the Animation's Teaser Video Introduces 4 Idol Units

The staff of the fictional talent agency project Tsukino Talent Production began streaming a new teaser promotional video for its TsukiPro the Animation television anime on Tuesday. The video introduces that anime's main idol groups and previews their songs. The anime will premiere in October on Tokyo MX and other networks.

Tsukino Talent Production began streaming a similar AnimeJapan promotional video and posted a key visual in March.

Keitaro Motonaga (Digimon Adventure tri., Date A Live director) is serving as chief director, and Juria Matsumura (Digimon Adventure tri. unit director) is directing the anime at PRA (Bikini Warriors). Reiko Yoshida (Yowamushi Pedal, K-ON!) is handling series composition, and Mariko Oka (First Love Monster, Hetalia The World Twinkle) is adapting the character designs for animation. AZ Creative is producing the anime.

The music anime will follow the daily lives and associated drama of four of TsukiPro's groups — SOARA, Growth, SolidS, and Quell.

The cast is as follows:

Soara

• Chiharu Sawashiro as Nozomu Nanase
• Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Sora Ohara
• Makoto Furukawa as so-shi Kagurazaka
• Taishi Murata as Ren Munakata
• Yūki Ono as Morihito Arihara

Growth

• Junta Terashima as Mamoru Fujimura
• Shun'ichi Toki as Koki Eto
• Yoshitaka Yamaya as Kensuke Yaegashi
• Daiki Yamashita as Ryota Sakuraba

SolidS

• Yūichirō Umehara as Dai Murase
• Sōma Saitō as Tsubasa Okui
• Takuya Eguchi as Shiki Takamura
• Natsuki Hanae as Rikka Sera

Quell

• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Shu Izumi
• Kōtarō Nishiyama as Eichi Horimiya
• Shugo Nakamura as Issei Kuga
• Sho Nogami as Ichiru Kuga

Fujiwara (MOVIC) is credited with the original story, as well as the original story concepts with Ryōko Seki. The original character designers are Yū Satsuki (SQ Series or SolidS and Quell) and Tohiro Shijima (Alive Series or Soara and Growth). Akira Takizawa and Takeshi Hama contributed on the music.

[Via Ota-Suke]