With a game that launched back in 2015, I★CHU we got the nod way back in April 2019 that an anime adaptation is in the works with I★CHU Étoile Stage. The series was given a January 6th, 2021 premiere date for it on Tokyo MX before rolling out elsewhere. With the show underway, the official site has now dropped a promotional spot for the fourth episode that will arrive on January 27th, 2021.
Hitoshi Nanba has signed on to direct based on the series scripts supervised by Yoshimi Narita. Mina Osawa is handling the character designs with Lay-duce working on the animation production.
The Japanese cast members are from the game include Kazutomi Yamamoto as Momosuke Oikawa, Ayumu Murase as Kokoro Hanabusa, Kōhei Amasaki as Runa Kagurazaka, Yoshiyuki Shimozuma as Ban Jumonji, Hiro Shimono as Eva Armstrong, Tetsuya Kakihara as Mio Yamanobe, Yūma Uchida as Futami Akabane, Tomoaki Maeno as Issei Todoroki, Yusuke Shirai as Takamichi Sanzenin, Ryohei Kimura as Aoi Kakitsubata, Kei Minegishi as Toya Honoki, Yuuki Ono as Tsubaki Rindo, Sōma Saitō as Tatsumi Madarao, Yūichi Iguchi as Kanata Minato, KENN as Seiya Aido, Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Akira Mitsurugi, Takashi Kondo as Mitsuki Kururugi, Showtaro Morikubo as Satsuki Kururugi, Yuichiro Umehara as Lucas, Toshiki Masuda as Leon, Natsuki Hanae as Noah, Junya Enoki as Li Chaoyang, Naoya Nakanishi as Rabi, Katsufumi Yachi as Shiki Amabe, Atsushi Tamaru as Akio Tobikura, Hiroyuki Kagura as Kyosuke Momoi, Kenji Roa as Torahiko Kusakabe, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Hikaru Orihara, and Daisuke Hirakawa as Raku Wakaoji.
Additional casting includes Megumi Toyoguchi as the producer Yuzuki Asahina and Akio Ohtsuka as Principal Bear.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: A famous talent agency called Ailedore has created an academy called Etoile Vio School to train budding idols.
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