Sentai Filmworks has the Hitorijime My Hero anime series coming up as a Blu-ray release on October 30th, 2018 and now the folks at HIDIVE are making their plans known for it. The show will begin streaming the dub on the service on November 12th, 2018 with new episodes coming out every Monday thereafter for US and Canadian viewers.
The English cast includes Austin Tindle as Masahiro Setagawa, David Matranga as Kousuke Ohshiba, Daman Mills as Asaya Hasekura, Alejandro Saab as Kensuke Ohshiba, Houston Hayes as Fukushige, Greg Cote as Yamabe, Howard Wang as Yoshida, Gareth West as Yunge, Carli Mosier as Ayaka, Scott Gibbs as Houjou, David Wald as Natsuo, Jessica Calvello as Megumi, Molly Searcy as Miho, Margaret McDonald as Matsuzawa, Brittney Karbowski as Ryoko, Tia Ballard as Satou, John Swasey as Toru, and Greg Ayres as Yabase.
Yukina Hiiro served as the director working from the series composition by Yuusei Naruse. Fumina Nishino is on board as the character designer and the chief animation director with Encourage Films handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Tomoaki Maeno as Kousuke Ooshiba, Toshiki Masuda as Masahiro Setagawa, Shinnosuke Tachibana as Asaya Hasegura and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kensuke Ooshiba.
Coming as a spin-off to Hitorijime Boyfriend, this series kicked off in 2012 and six volumes as of this month.
The opening theme song is “Heart Signal” as performed by Wataru Hatano while the ending theme song is performed by the four main voice actors.
Plot Concept: The property follows Kensuke’s brother, Ooshiba Kousuke and friend, Setagawa Masahiro from the Hitorijime Boyfriend manga series.
Hitorijime Boyfriend Concept: “Would you like to break up with me again or be held, which would you prefer?” My former friend with the beautiful face, whom I’ve run into again after so long, only says things that cause me trouble. In the winter of sixth grade, Kensuke was upset about having to separate from his best friend Hasekura in middle school, and ended up breaking off their friendship. Three years has passed since then, and Hasekura comes in contact with Kensuke like nothing had changed. Kensuke was happy they could repair their friendship, but Hasekura says something completely out of left field…
