Sentai Filmworks brought out the first piece of the dub cast for My Love Story!! back in June with Andrew Love as Takeo Goda. They then promptly canceled the release.
That’s not Andrew’s fault, however, as Sentai Filmworks shifted gears from two releases for the series that’s standard to bringing it all out in one collection that’s set for a December 20th, 2016 release. With the artwork revealed recently, the distributor is now back on the case of bringing out the voice cast. The newest addition to it is the talented Tia Ballard as she takes on the role of Rinko Yamato. The brief clip below gives us a good taste of how she’s approaching the character and a fun live-action piece as well that’s definitely adorable across the board.
The anime series ran for twenty-four episodes and was directed by Morio Asaka at Madhouse with Natsuko Takahashi handling the scripts. Character designs were done by Kunihiko Hamada.
The Japanese cast includes Takuya Eguchi as Takeo Gōda, Megumi Han as Rinko Yamato, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Makoto Sunakawa, Kikuko Inoue as Ai Sunakawa, Daisuke Namikawa as Hayato Oda, Kazuyo Aoki as Yuriko Gouda, Tesshou Genda as Yutaka Gouda, Osamu Kurihara as Junya Enoki, Rina Kitagawa as Nanako, Rena Maeda as Mariya Saijo and Ai Kayano as Yukika Amami.
The manga series comes from writer Kazune Kawahara and artist Aruko which began in 2011 with nine volumes in print so far. Viz Media began releasing the series last summer digitally and in print with the sixth volume due out in October. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series for home video release in North America.
Plot concept: Takeo Goda’s hulking physique and affinity for sports make him popular with other guys, but girls just find him intimidating. Unaware of his gentle nature, the girls that Takeo likes always seem to fall for his handsome best friend, Makoto, instead. Takeo is resigned to being Makoto’s wingman, with no hard feelings between them, until Takeo rescues Rinko Yamato from a molester on the train. Unfortunately, while Rinko might see past Takeo’s brutish appearance, Takeo’s become so conditioned to girls preferring Makoto that he assumes Rinko is the same! Being the good, genuine guy he is, he’s going to do everything he can to help the two of them be happy. Will Takeo let himself believe someone likes him? Love isn’t blind: it’s just a little dense in MY LOVE STORY!!
Yes! Thrilled to announce that I'll be playing Rinko Yamato in My Love Story!!!! This is one of my favorite shows to date! I'm so happy! pic.twitter.com/1gK3rMXrId
— Tia Ballard. (@tiatoony) October 26, 2016