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Tsuredure Children Anime Casts Kentarō Kumagai, Haruka Miyage, Kana Hanazawa

This year's 28th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine is revealing additional cast members for the television anime of Toshiya Wakabayashi's Tsuredure Children (Idle Children) manga on Wednesday.

The new cast members are:

• Kentarō Kumagai as Haruhiko Takase
• Haruka Miyake as Saki Kanda
• Kana Hanazawa as Yuki Minagawa
• Kōhei Amasaki as Jun Furuya
• Haruka Tomatsu as Hotaru Furuya
• Daisuke Namikawa as Shinichi Katori

The anime stars:

• Kaito Ishikawa as Takurō Sugawara
• Inori Minase as Chizuru Takano
• Tomoaki Maeno as Takeru Gōda
• Yui Ogura as Ayaka Kamine
• Kenshō Ono as Masafumi Akagi
• Ayane Sakura as Ryōko Kaji

The series' second short promotional video debuted on Wednesday.

The anime will premiere on July 4 on Tokyo MX at 11:15 p.m., on Sun TV on 12:15 a.m. (effectively July 5 morning), and on BS11 at 2:15 a.m. (effectively July 5 morning). Each episode will be 15 minutes long.

Hiraku Kaneko (The Qwaser of Stigmata, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid, Manyū Hiken-chō) is directing the anime at Studio Gokumi, and Tatsuhiko Urahata (Saki, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, Haganai NEXT) is in charge of the series scripts. Etsuko Sumimoto (Yuri Kuma Arashi) is designing the characters.

Inori Minase is performing the anime's opening theme song "Aimaimoko," and Yui Ogura is performing the ending theme song "Dear."

The four-panel manga is dedicated "to those of you who can't say 'I love you.'" The manga chronicles a series of short school romance stories in an omnibus format.

Wakabayashi launched the manga online in October 2012, and then also began serializing it with new material in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2015. Kodansha published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on February 17, and will ship the eighth volume on June 16. Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga digitally in English, and published the manga's first volume on April 25.