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Hina Logi: From Luck & Logic Anime Reveals Cast, Staff, Theme Song Artists, July 1 Premiere (Updated)

The official website for Bushiroad's upcoming Hina Logi: from Luck & Logic anime adaptation of its Luck & Logic card game revealed the show's cast, additional staff, character designs, premiere date, and theme song artists on Saturday. The official website also began streaming a third promotional video for the series on Saturday.

The series will premiere on July 1 at 10:30 p.m. on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto. The series will also air on TV Aichi and BS11. TRUE performs the show's opening theme song "Butterfly Effector," and main voice cast members Madoka Asahina, Hibiku Yamamura, and Natsumi Takamori perform the ending theme song "Baby Bird ~Gakuen Logic~." The above video previews TRUE's theme song.

The show stars:

Madoka Asahina as Liones Yelistratova

Hibiku Yamamura as Nina Alexandrovna

Natsumi Takamori as Mahiro Kyobashi

Suzuko Mimori as Yayoi Tachibana

Kana Ueda as Yuko Morigaya

Yui Ogura as Karin Kiritani

Kaede Yuasa as Karen Kiritani

Rikiya Koyama as Liones' Father

Other cast members include: (Note: name spellings not confirmed)

• Maaya Uchida as Mizuki Higashi
• Ayaka Ōhashi as Aoi Iroha
• Mikoi Sasaki as Ashley Bradbury
• Mai Aizawa as Shizuha Kagura
• Tomoyo Takayanagi as Rino Fujisaki
• Akiko Yajima as the academy principal
• Atsumi Tanezaki as the academy vice-principal
• Eriko Matsui as Rosa
• Rimi Nishimoto as Amol
• Izumi Kitta as Shippō
• Yuka Ozaki as Seren Researcher 013
• Marie Miyake as BELLE
• Eriko Matsui as Vesta

Doga Kobo is animating the series. Hiroaki Akagi (episode director for Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū, GJ Club) is directing the series, and Yukie Sugawara (Sword Art Online, Sword Art Online II) is handling the series composition. The anime features original character designs by Yū Akinashi (Love, Election and Chocolate), Mari Shimazaki, Ariko, and Kana Kuramoto. Kyōko Nagata is credited with the original animation character plans, and Satomi Kurita (animation director for Haikyu!!, The Heroic Legend of Arslan) and Manabu Nii (Karneval) are the character designers. Ken Itō (Handa-kun) is composing the show's music at Lantis.

Other staff members include:

• Original Work: Septpia
• Original Plan: Yuuya Takahashi (QueenB)
• Concept Design: Mari Shimazaki
• Art Director: Norifumi Nakamura
• Color Key: Yūta Takeuchi
• Director of Photography: Takehiro Go
• Editing: Aya Hida
• Sound Director: Takahiro Enomoto

The 12-episode series will follow the "cute everyday life of the Logicalist girls." The second season of the "Watashi-tachi, Rakuroji-bu!" (We Are the Luck & Logic Club!) short anime series will then premiere on August 1.

The main series centers on Liones Yelistratova, the naive princess of a small nation, who goes to Hokkaido to enter ALCA, an educational institution dedicated to teaching Logicalists who uphold world peace. Liones enters Class S, and encounters many unique classmates, including Logicalist Nina Alexandrovena.

The Luck & Logic project is a collaboration between Bushiroad, Bandai Visual, Doga Kobo, Nitroplus, Lantis, and Yuhodo. The television anime series premiered in Japan in January 2016. Funimation streamed the series in North America as it aired. Crunchyroll streamed the series in Spain and Portugal, and Daisuki and Anime Lab also streamed the series outside of North America. The "Watashi-tachi, Rakuroji-bu!" (We Are the Luck & Logic Club!) short anime series aired before each TV anime episode.

Update: Embedded third promotional video.

[Via Ota-Suke]