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Comic Girls Anime Announces Additional Cast Members

The official Twitter account for the television anime of Kaori Hanzawa's Comic Girls four-panel manga announced additional cast members on Saturday.

• Aya Endō as Ririka Hanazono (top left in image above)
• Minami Tsuda as Mayu Amisawa (top right)
• Ayaka Nanase as Miharu Nijino (bottom left)
• Reina Ueda as Suzu Fūra (bottom right)

The show also stars:

• Hikaru Akao as Kaoruko Moeta
• Kaede Hondo as Koyume Koizuka
• Rie Takahashi as Tsubasa Katsuki
• Saori Ōnishi as Ruki Irokawa

The manga's story centers on the 15-year-old high school student and manga creator Kaoruko Moeta, who uses the pen name Chaos. After ranking at the bottom of a reader survey, Kaoruko's editor recommends that she enter an all-female dormitory for manga creators. Kaoruko's roommates are shōjo manga creator Koyume Koizuka, teen romance manga creator Ruki Irokawa, and shōnen manga creator Tsubasa Katsuki. The girls support each other as they work to become better manga creators.

Yoshinobu Tokumoto (WATAMOTE, Chivalry of a Failed Knight episode director) is making his directorial debut at Nexus. Natsuko Takahashi (Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, Yuyushiki, Love and Lies) is in charge of the series scripts, while Touko Machida (Lucky Star, Tears to Tiara, Chaika the Coffin Princess), Michiko Yokote (Patlabor, Shirobako, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches), and Jukki Hanada (Love Live!, Sound! Euphonium, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!) are penning the scripts. Yoshiko Saitō is designing the characters. Kenichiro Suehiro (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka) is composing the music, and Jin Aketagawa (Re:CREATORS, Under the Dog) is the sound director.

The series will premiere in April on Tokyo MX and other stations. The site began streaming the show's second promotional video on December 31.

The manga debuted as a guest series in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Max magazine in 2014, and the series' regular serialization began later that year. Houbunsha released the manga's third compiled book volume on June 27, and will release the fourth volume on March 27. The manga was a first-round candidate selected for last year's Manga Taisho awards.

[Via Ota-suke]