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Kadokawa's Original Maesetsu! Anime Reveals Character Designs, 2020 Premiere

The official website for Kadokawa's original anime Maesetsu! announced on Friday that the anime will premiere in Japan in 2020. Maesetsu! Channel, a television program to promote the anime, will launch in Japan on either December 30 or January 6. The anime will have a New Year Presentation in Akihabara on January 7.

The website also revealed new character designs. The cast, organized by their respective duos, includes:

Aguri Ōnishi as Fubuki Kitakaze (Tokonatsu)

Naomi Ōzora as Mafuyu Kogarashi (Tokonatsu)

Hiromi Igarashi as Rin Araya (R凸)

Sakura Nakamura as Nayuta Asōgi (R凸)

Yūki Takada as Manatsu Kogarashi (Tsundora)

Nozomi Furuki as Kanae Kanari (Tsundora)

Ayaka Shimizu as Arashi Waraino (JK Cool)

Asuka Aida as Eru Kusaba (JK Cool)

Junki Tomita as self (Freak!)

Ubu no Hatsuna as self (Freak!)

The cast also includes:

• Risako Murai as Hajime Chūkan, Nayuta's older sister
• Seirou Ogino as Carlos Ali
• Kentarō Tone as manager
• Rei Shimoda as Aunt Keiko
• Masatake Yamamoto as self (BANBANBAN)
• Hiromi Sameshima as self (BANBANBAN)

Yuu Nobuta (High School Fleet, A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd) is directing the anime at Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ.

Mugendai∞ is credited with the original work, and Lucky Star manga author Kagami Yoshimizu is credited with the original illustrations. Touko Machida (DIVE!!, Wake up, Girls!) is in charge of series composition, and she is writing the scripts with Shōta Gotō and Joe Itou (Nichijō, Lucky Star). Katsuzo Hirata (Ben-To, Angel Beats!) is designing the characters for the anime. Masaru Koseki (Ms. Koizumi loves ramen noodles, Demon King Daimao) and Naoki Yamauchi (animation director for Bleach, Chronicles of the Going Home Club) are the chief animation directors.

Other staff members include:

• Clothing Design: Kazuko Hayakawa
• Prop Design: Shigeyuki Koresawa (Digital Noise), Tom (Digital Noise)
• Color Design: Aiko Matsuyama
• Art Director: Hiroki Matsumoto
• Background: Atelier PLATZ
• Director of Photography: Koujirou Hayashi
• Photography: Graphinica
• Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya
• Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
• Music: Satoru Kousaki, Monaca
• Music Producer: Shigeru Saitō
• Animation Producer: Tetsuya Tomioka
• Planning Producers: Atsushi Itou, Tsuyoshi Kato
• Joke Supervision: Seitarō Mukai
• Joke Production: Touko Machida, Shōta Gotō
• Planning Cooperation: Yoshimoto Kōgyō
• Production: Firm Class

Yoshimizu is drawing a four-panel manga for the project, and also drew the above visual for the project.

The project centers on four girls at the height of their youth, attempting to achieve their dreams even as they struggle gallantly.

Yoshimizu put his Lucky Star manga on hiatus in 2014 due to a "new project" that was then under planning. Until then, the manga had been running in Comptiq since the magazine's January 2004 issue. Kadokawa has published 10 volumes for the manga.

Sources: Maesetsu! anime's website, Comic Natalie