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I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class Anime Casts Kaori Maeda
posted on by Anita Tai
The staff for the television anime of Seiju Amano's I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class (Class no Dai Kirai na Joshi to Kekkon suru Koto ni Natta.) story announced on Saturday that Kaori Maeda is joining the anime's cast. Maeda plays Maho, a girl who is a younger student in the same school as the main cast.
The staff also released the first character promotional video and visual (for Akane Sakuramori), with another new video and visual for a different character set to premiere every week.
The anime stars:
- Hinaki Yano as Akane Sakuramori
- Shōgo Sakata as Saito Hōjō
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Himari Ishikura
- Nene Hieda as Shisei Hojo
- Hōchū Ohtsuka as Tenryu Hojo
- Fumi Hirano as Chiyo Sakuramori
Hiroyuki Oshima (episode director for Kill la Kill, Teasing Master Takagi-san) is directing the anime at Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ. Tatsuya Takahashi (The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, Domestic Girlfriend, Idoly Pride) is overseeing the series scripts, Nanako Tatsu (Date A Live IV, Date A Live V assistant character design) is designing the characters, and Arisa Okehazama (Jujutsu Kaisen, The Apothecary Diaries) is composing the music. EGG FIRM is producing the series.
Idol group =LOVE performs the show's opening theme song "Koibito Ijō, Suki Miman" (More Than Lovers, Less Than Love, a tongue-in-cheek nod to a typical Japanese translation for the English phrase "more than friends, less than lovers.") Hinaki Yano performs the ending theme song "Suki Kirai mo Oikoshite" (Overtaking Love and Hate).
The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 channels on January 3 at 11:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EST), and it will also run on MBS and TV Aichi.
The Class no Dai Kirai na Joshi to Kekkon suru Koto ni Natta. story first launched in March 2020 as a YouTube manga on the Manga Angel Neko Oka channel, where it has over 3 million views. Amano is the YouTube manga scriptwriter, and Mosskonbu is in charge of illustration.
Kadokawa published the light novel series' first volume in December 2020, with illustration by Nanami Narumi. The novels' ninth volume shipped on August 23. Mosskonbu launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Shōnen Ace Plus web manga magazine in May 2021. Kadokawa published the manga's first compiled book volume in December 2021, and the sixth volume on February 26.
Sources: Aniplex's YouTube channel, Comic Natalie
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