FUNimation’s getting their second wave of spring 2015 anime Broadcast Dubs in order and they recently announced the cast for Mikagura School Suite. As that series gets moving for English language fans, FUNimation has now brought out a three minute clip to highlight some of the humor and characters – and ask the eternal question: Can cousins do it and have normal kids?
Created by Last Note, he’s a composer that has worked on a number of Vocaloid songs and ended up creating this series based on them, which has also seen a manga adaptation by Sayuki. Five volumes are out of the light novel series while three volumes of the manga have been released so far.
The series has Sonny Strait serving as the ADR director for it working off of the scripts from Jamie Marchie while Patrick Murphy serves as the lead engineer. The English language cast includes Trina Nishimura as Asuhi, Sonny Strait as Bimii, Monica Rial as Eruna, Lara Woodhull as Himi, Apphia Yu as Katai, Bryn Apprill as Kurumi, Chris Rager as Kuzuryu, Josh Grelle as Sadamatsu, Jamie Marchi as Seisa, Ben Phillips as Shigure, Kristen McGuire as Yuriko, Micah Solusod as Yuto, Alexis Tipton as Mewmirin and Josh Grelle as Minatogawa.
The Japanese cast includes Juri Kimura as Eruna Ichinomiya, Saori Onishi as Seisa Mikagura, Ari Ozawa as Otone Fujishiro, Ayaka Suwa as Himi Yasaka, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shigure Ninomiya, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Bimii, Natsuki Hanae as Yūto Akama, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Kyoma Kuzuryu, Makoto Furukawa as Sadamatsu Minatogawa, Ai Kakuma as Asuhi Imizu, Reina Ueda as Meika Katai, Ai Kayano as Kurumi Narumi and Asuka Nishi as Yuriko.
The anime adaptation is directed by Tarou Iwasaki and it was animated at Dogakobo. Masahiro Yokotani wrote the scripts and served as supervisor while Mamani Amazaki performed double duty as character designer and chief animation director.
Plot concept: The story of the original light novels and manga revolves around high school girl Eruna Ichinomiya, who enters the Mikagura Academy dreaming of a boarding school life filled with beauty. However, Eruna finds out that in the culture clubs, there is a rule that battles that are fought with special powers decide a club representative’s treatment. Through various circumstances, Eruna becomes a representative of a club, and is thrown into the fray.
