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Keisuke Satō, Toshiyuki Toyonaga Join Cast of Hoshiai no Sora Anime
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The staff of the original television anime Hoshiai no Sora (Star-Crossing Skies) revealed two more cast members and a visual for the series on Monday. Toshiyuki Toyonaga will play Tsubasa Soga (left) and Keisuke Satō will play Shingo Takenouchi (right).
The anime will premiere in October on TBS and BS-TBS. The previously revealed cast includes:
Tasuku Hatanaka as Tōma Shinjō (left) and Natsuki Hanae as Maki Katsuragi (right)
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Itsuki Ameno (left) and Gen Sato as Rintarō Futsu (right)
Kazuki Akane (Escaflowne series and film, Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, Birdy the Mighty: Decode, Noein - to your other self) is directing anime at 8-Bit and also supervising and writing the series scripts. Yūichi Takahashi is adapting the original character designs by illustrator Itsuka, and he is also serving as animation director. Miki Takeshita is in charge of scene setting, and Shiori Shiwa is directing the art. Jin Aketagawa is directing the sound at Magic Capsule. Flying Dog is responsible for the music, and instrumental band jizue are composing the music for the anime.
Megumi Nakajima will perform the opening theme song "Suisō" (Aquarium).
The teen adolescence story revolves around the coming of age of boys in a junior high school's soft tennis team, which is on the verge of shutting down. Tōma Shinjō asks Maki Katsuragi, who has just transferred schools, to join the team.
Source: Press release
