The fall 2019 anime adaptation of the manga series Hokago Saikoro Club from Hiro Nakamichi is set for an October 2nd, 2019 arrival in Japan. Funimation has now announced that they’ve picked up the show for a simulcast under the name After School Dice Club that will appear the same day while a simuldub will appear on October 16th, 2019. Availability is set for the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
The show has Kenichi Imaizumi directing based on the series composition by Atsushi Maekawa. Yukiko Ibe is on board with the character designs for it with LIDEN FILMS handling the animation production.
The main Japanese cast includes Saki Miyashita as Miki, Marika Kōno as Aya, Miyu Tomita as Midori, Takaya Kuroda as Takeru Kinjo, M.A.O. as Emilia, Kōhei Amasaki as Shota Tanoue, Shun Horie as Ryūji Yoshioka, Taku Yashiro as Yūto Aoshi, Kotori Koiwai as Ren Shibusawa, Hisako Tōjō as Hana Takayashiki, and Eriko Matsui as Kyōko Maki.
The manga began in 2013 in the magazine and it has fourteen volumes out so far in Japan.
Nippon Columbia revealed that the opening theme song for the series will be “Present Song” from Miyu Tomita and that the CD hits the shelves on November 13th, 2019.
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Plot Concept: The story focuses on Aya, who moves and starts to attend an all-girls high school in Kyoto. Her first friend is her reserved classmate Miki. After school one day, the committee chairwoman Midori takes them both to an analog game specialty shop called “Saikoro Club” (Dice Club). There, they start playing a German board game without thinking. Thus begins Aya and Miki’s search for fun through the world of analog games.