A new visual featuring Hifumi Takimoto from the anime adaptation of Shoutarou Tokunou’s New Game! manga has been featured in the latest issue of of Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine. The issue has a promotional image featuring Hifumi Takimoto as a sorceress, who will make an appearance in the upcoming 2017 role-playing game for iOS and Android devices, Kirara Fantasia. Aoba Suzukaze will also appear in the game, dressed up as a cute bear.
Various characters from Manga Time Kirara will also appear in the game, including characters from Hidamari Sketch, and Kiniro Mosaic! The voice actresses of their respective characters will voice them in the game.
In addition, the new cast members for the second season include:
Arisa Suzuki (First Major Role) voicing as Momiji Mochizuki
Hitomi Ohwada (Midori Imai in Shirobako) as Tsubame Narumi
Manaka Iwami (Aira Miyamoto in Tsuki ga Kirei) who will voice Hotaru Hoshikawa
Kaori Nazuka (Miyu Edelfelt in Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya) voicing the role of Wako Christina Yamato
The main cast members of the first season will be returning include:
Yuuki Takada (Rin Kurosawa in Aikatsu!) will voice Aoba Suzukaze
Yoko Hikasa (Mio Akiyama in K-ON!) is going to voice Kou Yagami
Ai Kayano (Utaha Kasumigaoka from Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata) as Rin Touyama
Megumi Yamaguchi (First Major Role) is voicing Hifumi Takimoto
Megumi Toda (Yuzu Iizuka in Sakura Trick) voices Hajime Shinoda
Ayumi Takeo (Debut Role) will be voicing Yun Iijima
Madoka Asahina (First Major Role) voicing as Nene Sakura
Chitose Morinaga (Karen Jinryou from Syomin Sample) as Umiko Ahagon
Eri Kitamura (Yui from Angel Beats!) will voice Shizuku Hazuki
The returning staff for the anime includes:
- Director: Yoshiyuki Fujiwara (GJ-bu, Plastic Memories)
- Series Composer: Fumihiko Shimo (Non Non Biyori, Amagi Brilliant Park)
- Anime Character Designer: Ai Kikuchi (Mikakunin de Shinkoukei, Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin)
- Music Composer: Hajime Hyakkoku (K-On!, Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata)
- Animation Studio: Dogakobo (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, GJ-bu)
Here’s the promotion video for the currently airing second season:
Anime visual:
New Game! is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Shoutarou Tokunou, which began serialization in Houbunsha’s seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat from January 2013. An anime television series adaptation by Doga Kobo aired in Japan between July and September 2016. A video game developed by 5pb. was released in January 2017.
Here is the synopsis of the series:
Follow Aoba Suzukaze, a fresh highschool graduate that is easily mistaken as a middle school student, as she joins the game company that produced her favorite game as a 3D artist and her cute antics in this story told through 4-koma.
Source: Otakomu
