The Quintessential Quintuplets Anime Reveals More Cast,
Theme Song Artists, January 10 Debut
The
official website for the television anime adaptation of Negi Haruba's The
Quintessential Quintuplets(Gotōbun no Hanayome) manga revealed more
cast members, the theme songs' artists, and the January 10 premiere on Monday.
The newly announced cast members are:
Natsumi Takamori as Raiha Uesugi, Fūtarō Uesugi's little sister
Satoshi Hino as Isanari Uesugi,
Fūtarō Uesugi's father
The main female
cast members Kana Hanazawa, Ayana
Taketatsu, Miku Itō, Ayane
Sakura, and Inori Minase are performing the opening
theme song "Gotōbun no Kimochi" (Quintuplet Feelings) as the group
Nakano-ke no Itsuko (The Nakano Family's Quintuplets), while Aya Uchida is performing the ending theme song "Sign." The
two songs' CD singles will go on sale on January 30 and March 6, respectively.
Nakano-ke no Itsuko is also releasing a character song mini-album on March 6.
The series will
premiere on TBS on January 10 at
25:28 (effectively, January 11 at 1:28 a.m.), and it will then run on Sun TV and BS-TBS.
The
cast includes:
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Fūtarō Uesugi
Kana
Hanazawa as Ichika Nakano
Ayana
Taketatsu as Nino Nakano
Miku Itō as Miku Nakano
Ayane
Sakura as Yotsuba Nakano
Inori
Minase as Itsuki Nakano
Satoshi Kuwabara (Dagashi
Kashi 2, Yu-Gi-Oh!
Zexal) is directing the series at Tezuka
Productions (Dagashi
Kashi 2, Black
Jack). Keiichirō Ōchi is in charge of
series composition (Hinamatsuri, La Corda d'Oro Blue Sky). Michinosuke
Nakamura (Hajime
no Ippo Rising, Kids
on the Slope) and Miyabi Uta (name romanization
not confirmed) are designing the characters. Natsumi Tabuchi (Castle
Town Dandelion, Clockwork
Planet), Hanae Nakamura (Clockwork Planet, Convenience Store Boy
Friends),
and Miki
Sakurai are composing the music.
Other staff
members include:
·
Prop Design: Miki Ogino, Tetsuya
Kawaishi
·
Art Director: Masami Saito
·
Color Design: Yumi Aburaya
·
Director of Photography: Kazumasa
Someya (T2
Studio)
·
Editing: Wataru Uchida (Conquest)
·
Sound Director: Takuya Hiramitsu
Kodansha Comics is releasing the series digitally, and it describes
the story:
One day, a poor
high school second-year named Futaro Uesugi comes across a private tutoring gig
with good pay. But his pupils are his classmates!! And they're quintuplets!!
A-and they're all gorgeous girls, but they're also troublemakers who hate to
study and are on the verge of flunking out! And his first task is simply
gaining the sisters' trust?! Every day is a party! The curtain is rising on the
Nakano quintuplets' quirky romantic comedy with five times the cute!!
The manga launched in Weekly Shōnen Magazine on August 9, 2017, and Kodansha shipped the sixth compiled volume on September 14. The
series has more than 700,000 copies in print as of August 8.
Sources: Quintessential Quintuplets anime's website, Comic Natalie
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