Blue Orchestra TV Anime Tunes up with Six New Cast Members
Just a few days shy of its big premiere, Blue Orchestra is rounding out its cast with six new voice actors!
While previous announcements have introduced the musicians of the series—naming both voice actors and the real-world musicians playing for them—these additions round out the people in our protagonists’ lives.
Joining the cast are:
- Takeda-sensei voiced by Hayato Kaneko (Lihito in Kengan Ashura)
- Hajime’s mother voiced by Chiwa Saito (Homura Akemi in Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
- Mari Tateishi voiced by Konomi Kohara (Chika Fujiwara in KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR)
- Chika Yonezawa voiced by Kaori Maeda (Shizuku Osaka in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
- Osamu Shibata voiced by Jun Fukushima (Kazuma in KONOSUBA)
- Hiroaki Ayukawa voiced by Daisuke Ono (Erwin Smith in Attack on Titan)
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The primary voice actors and their musician pairings are as follows:
- Hajime Aono voiced by Shoya Chiba (Kiyotaka in Classroom of the Elite), played by Ryota Higashi
- Ritsuko Akine voiced by Ai Kakuma (Eris in Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation), played by Yurie Yamada
- Nao Saeki voiced by Simba Tsuchiya (Shotaro in Backflip!!), played by Takuto Owari
- Haru Kozakura voiced by Minako Sato (Aoi in Toilet-bound Hanako-kun), played by Kyoko Ogawa
- Ichiro Yamada voiced by Makoto Furukawa (Shirogane in Kaguya-sama: Love is War), played by Haruma Sato
- Shizuka Tachibana voiced by Lynn (Miorine in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury), played by Karen Kido
- Yo Hatora voiced by Shintaro Asanuma (Watashi in The Tatami Galaxy), played by Tomotaka Seki
- So Harada voiced by Junya Enoki (Itadori in JUJUTSU KAISEN), played by Maria Dueñas
- Ryuji Aono voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu (Kongming in Ya Boy Kongming!), played by Hilary Hahn
Based on the manga by Makoto Akui, Blue Orchestra is being directed by Seiji Kishi (Assassination Classroom, Angel Beats) at studio Nippon Animation, with series composition by Yuko Kakihara (Chihayafuru), character designs by Kazuaki Morita (Tsukigakirei) and music by Akira Kosemura.
As previously reported, the series follows high school student Hajime Aono, who grew up a violin prodigy that won numerous awards and dominated most of the competitions he participated in. Despite this, he gave up on the violin during his second year of middle school. One day, he meets Ritsuko Akine. Akine inspires him to take up the violin again, deciding to go to a high school with a famous orchestra club. With the help of Akine and his new clubmates, he learns to love the violin again.
The series debuts April 9 on NHK.
Source: Comic Natalie
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