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Chūsotsu Worker Kara Hajimeru Kōkō Seikatsu Anime's Cast, November 30 Debut Revealed

The staff of the anime adaptation of Minoru Sasaki's Chūsotsu Worker Kara Hajimeru Kōkō Seikatsu (Beginning High School Life After Entering the Workforce After Middle School) manga revealed the cast for the anime and its November 30 debut on Production I.G's Anime Beans app on Tuesday.

The cast includes:

·         Toshiki Masuda as Makoto Katagiri, the protagonist who works while also attending a high school correspondence course

·         Wake Up, Girls! member Yoshino Aoyama as Maaya Katagiri, Makoto's younger sister

·         HKT48 member Marina Yamada as Rio Ōsawa, the daughter of a rich family, and Makoto and Maaya's classmate

Other cast members include Kento Itō, Ayumi Orii, Minami Iba, Kazuya Saji, Reiō Tsuchida, Moe Konoma, and Ryōdai Kudō.

The staff held a voice actor audition event on the Line Live streaming service from September 28 to October 9. Six male and six female voice actors from 81 Produce competed for viewer support to be selected for the anime.

The romantic comedy follows 18-year-old Makoto Katagiri, who quit school after middle school to work at a factory and take care of his younger sister Maaya. When Maaya fails her high school entrance exams, they both end up at the same correspondence high school. At the school's entrance ceremony, Makoto has a dramatic meeting with Rio Aizawa, the daughter of a wealthy family.

The ongoing manga launched in Nihon Bungeisha's Comic Heaven magazine in October 2012. Nihon Bungeishapublished the 10th compiled volume on May 28, and will publish the 11th volume on Thursday, November 29. The manga has more than 1 million copies in print.

Production I.G launched the Tate Anime app in June 2017 and it ended service on May 31. The app offered short (about three-minute) anime that update on weekdays, and each series had 10 episodes. The anime are presented vertically for smartphones. Production I.G rebranded the app as Anime Beans in June.

Source: Anime Hack