Promotion for the upcoming spring 2015 anime series Mikagura School Suite from Last Note has gotten something new that will certainly delight fans. Media Factory has updated their channel this weekend to reveal a promotional spot that highlights the opening and closing songs of the series. The CD for this is set to come out on April 22nd, 2015 priced at 1,200 yen. It doesn’t feature any animation, but for those that like the music, it’s definitely a treat. The adaptation was announced back in December and we’ve had some of the basic information come out with staff and casting from the show that will debut on April 6th, 2015.
Last Note may not be well known to anime fans in general, but 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 will be out of the light novel series as of this month while three volumes of the manga have been released so far.
The previously revealed 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 will be directed by Tarou Iwasaki and it will be animated at Dogakobo. Masahiro Yokotani will be writing the scripts and serving as supervisor while Mamani Amazaki will be doing 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.
