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Akira Ishida, Yuko Kaida Join Snow White with the Red Hair Anime's Cast
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The staff of the television anime adaptation of Sorata Akiduki's Akagami no Shirayuki-hime (Snow White with the Red Hair) manga revealed a new key visual (pictured below), character designs, and additional cast for the series on Saturday
The new cast members include:
Akira Ishida as Izana
Yūko Kaida as Garack
Previously revealed cast members include:
Saori Hayami as Shirayuki (Snow White)
Ryota Ohsaka as Zen
Yūichirō Umehara as Mitsuhide
Kaori Nazuka as Kiki
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Obi
Jun Fukuyama as Prince Raji Shenazard
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Miyaha
Additionally Yūko Sanpei will play Ryū.
Masahiro Andō (Hanasaku Iroha - Blossoms for Tomorrow, Blast of Tempest) will direct the series off scripts by Deko Akao (Noragami, Arakawa Under the Bridge), and Kumiko Takahashi (Card Captor Sakura, Ouran High School Host Club) is designing the characters. Michiru Ōshima (Fullmetal Alchemist, Patema Inverted) is composing the music and Kazuhiro Wakabayashi (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Ouran High School Host Club) is serving as sound director. Studio Bones (Fullmetal Alchemist, Noragami) is producing the animation.
eyelis, a musical unit consisting of composers Satomi Kawasaki (The World God Only Knows), Takeshi Masuda (Zettai Karen Children, The World God Only Knows), and Wataru Maeguchi (Zettai Karen Children, Hayate the Combat Butler), will perform the anime's ending theme song, "Kizuna ni Nosete" (Riding on Bonds). Hayami will perform the opening theme song "Yasashi Kibō" (Kind Hope).
The series will premiere in July.
The story of the shōjo manga revolves around Shirayuki, a beautiful girl working as a medicine woman who has red hair, which is very rare in her country. When she is proposed and chased after by the prince of her country, she runs away, only to meet Zen, the prince of a neighboring country. Finding respect for the young man, she decides to serve at his side as his court doctor.
Akiduki began the manga in LaLa in its September 2006 issue, and Hakusensha shipped the 13th compiled volume of the series on April 3.
Images © Sora Akiduki, Hakusensha / Akagami no Shirayuki-hime Production Committee
Source: Comic Natalie