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TV Asahi announced on Monday that author Yūki Suenaga and illustrator Takamasa Moue‘s Akane-banashi manga is getting a tv anime adaptation that will air in 2026 on TV Asahi‘s “IMAnimation” programming block.
©Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue / SHUEISHA, Akane-banashi Committee
Ayumu Watanabe (Kids of the Sea, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko) is directing the anime at ZEXCS. Yu Harima (episode director for Summer Time Rendering, Tokyo Revengers) is the assistant director, and Kii Tanaka (Cheating Craft, Hinomaru Sumo) is each and every the persona designer and chief animation director. Michihiro Tsuchiya (PriPara, Sinister Sport) is overseeing the series scripts, and Akio Izutsu (Phi-Brain – Puzzle of God, Akuma Kun) is composing the tune. Kikuhiko Hayashiya is the rakugo supervisor.
Watanabe drew an illustration to commemorate the announcement. The text on the below illustration reads, “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.”
©Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue / SHUEISHA, Akane-banashi Committee
The anime will huge name:
- Anna Nagase as Akane Osaki, a excessive college lady aiming for the supreme nasty in the field of rakugo: Shin’uchi.
- Takuya Eguchi as Karashi Nerimaya, a college student in the in the meantime on a two-time winning trudge on the Pupil Rakugo Championship, the Karaku Cup.
- Rie Takahashi as Hikaru Koragi, a rising huge name in the say acting world.
The anime can have a panel at Anime NYC 2025 later this month. Shueisha editor Seisuke Araki and TV Asahi producer Kazuki Endo will back the panel.
©Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue / SHUEISHA, Viz Media
TV Asahi describes the legend:
“With only your voice and body—master the art.”
Akane Osaki, captivated since childhood by the magical performances of her father, Shinta Arakawa, witnesses a shocking incident during his decisive performance for promotion to shin’uchi (master nasty).
Six years later, now a excessive college student, she sets her sights on becoming a shin’uchi herself—pushing forward in the extremely competitive world of rakugo.
A passionate and genuine rakugo drama begins now!
Suenaga and Moue launched the manga in February 2022. Shueisha printed the 17th compiled quantity on June 4. The manga turned into as soon as nominated for the forty seventh Kodansha Manga Awards and the 16th Manga Taisho awards in 2023. The manga ranked at #4 for the high 20 record of manga for male readers in the 2023 version of Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.
Viz Media‘s Shonen Leap carrier and Shueisha‘s MANGA Plus carrier each and every post the manga in English. Viz Media is also publishing the manga in print.
The manga made the American Library Association’s (ALA’s) Young Grownup Library Products and services Association’s (YALSA) 2024 record of Enormous Graphic Novels for Young of us, and The Original York Public Library also named the manga on its Finest Books record for teenagers in 2023.
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