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Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence TV Anime's Promo Video Reveals Cast, April 2023 Debut (Updated)
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Aniplex revealed a promotional video for the television anime for Hazano Kazutake's Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence (Shiro Seijo to Kuro Bokushi) manga on Saturday at the Aniplex Online Fest 2022 event. The video revealed the anime's April 2023 premiere and main cast members. The event also revealed a new visual for the anime.
Hime Sawada plays Cecilia
Kaito Ishikawa plays Lawrence
Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs.
Sumie Noro (Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle) is directing the anime at Doga Kobo. Yuka Yamada (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid) is in charge of series composition, and Hiromi Nakagawa (WATATEN!: an Angel Flew Down to Me) is designing the characters. Ruka Kawada is composing the music. Other staff members include Chieko Nakamura as art director, Genta Makabe as color designer, Seiichi Sugiura as director of photography, Mutsumi Takemiya as editor, and Masanori Tsuchiya as sound director.
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the series in English, and it describes the story:
Saint Cecilia is beloved by the townspeople—not only is she elegant and composed, she benevolently shares her wisdom with all who seek it. That is, until the last person has left—at which point she becomes totally hopeless! Only Pastor Lawrence, is keeping the Saint put together enough to do her duties...and though she may test him, it's all in a day's work!
Kazutake debuted the manga in Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine R magazine in April 2017. The series is also serialized on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket manga app. Kodansha published the manga's 10th compiled book volume on June 16.
Update: Crunchyroll announced on Saturday that it will stream the series.
Sources: Aniplex Online Fest 2022 livestream, press release
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