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Mirai Nikki's Staff, Cast, Premiere Date, Songs Revealed

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Sakae Esuno's Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) manga revealed more of the staff and cast on Wednesday:

Planning: Takeshi Yasuda, Tsuneo Takechi, Shunji Inoue, Naohiro Futono
Original Creator, Script Editing Collaboration: Sakae Esuno (Serialized in Shōnen Ace/Published by Kadokawa Comics Ace)
Series Script Editor: Katsuhiko Takayama 
Character Design: Eiji Hirayama 
Chief Animation Director: Eiji Hirayama, Maiko Okada
Sub-Character Design: Ruriko Watanabe 
Prop Design: Keiichi Eda
3D Director: Hirotatsu Ishida (Albion)
Music: Tatsuya Katou
Director: Naoto Hosoda 
Animation Production: asread 

Misuzu Togashi as Yukiteru Amano (1st)
Tomosa Murata as Yuno Gasai (2nd)
Jin Domon as Takao Hiyama (3rd)
Masahiko Tanaka as Keigo Kurusu (4th)
Asami Sanada as Reisuke Hōjō (5th)
Eri Sendai as Tsubaki Kasugano (6th)
Tomokazu Seki as Marco Ikusaba (7th)
Natsuko Kuwatani as Ai Mikami (7th)
Hiromi Konno as Kamado Ueshita (8th)
Mai Aizawa as Minene Uryū (9th)
Hirokazu Hiramatsu as Karyuudo Tsukishima (10th)
Takaya Hashi as John Bacchus (11th)
Yoshihisa Kawahara as Yomotsu Hirasaka (12th)
Akira Ishida as Aru Akise
Yuki Matsuoka as Hinata Hino
Yukana as Mao Nonosaka
Minoru Shiraishi as Ōji Kōsaka
Norio Wakamoto as Deus Ex Machina
Manami Honda as Muru-Muru 

The website also announced that Yousei Teikoku will perform the opening theme song "Kūsō Mesorogiwi," while Faylan will performing the ending theme song "Blood Teller." The series will premiere on October 9, and Nico Nico Douga will stream the series in Japan.

The manga already inspired a "pilot" anime that came bundled with the 11th manga volume on a premium anime DVD last December. Tokyopop published the 10th manga volume in North America on April 12, just days before announcing that its North American publishing operations will end next month. The 12th and final volume of the manga shipped in Japan on April 26.

[Via 0takomu]

Image © Sakae Esuno, Kadokawa Shoten/12-nin no Nikki Shoyūsha-tachi