The official website for the television anime adaptation of Suu Morishita’s A Sign of Affection (Yubisaki to Renren) manga has revealed the anime’s main visual, two additional cast members, and the opening and ending theme songs. Thursday.
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The newly announced cast members are:
Nao Tōyama as Ema Nakazono
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Tasuku Hatanaka as Kokoro Iyanagi
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Japanese band Novelbright will perform the anime’s opening theme song “Yuki no Oto” (The Sound of Snow) and music group ChoQMay will perform the ending theme song “snowspring”.
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The anime will premiere in Japan in January 2024 and will air on Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS NTV. Crunchyroll premiered the anime at the Anime NYC event on November 19.
Crunchyroll will stream the series in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, Middle East, and CIS in January 2024.
Crunchyroll describes the anime’s story:
With these hands, I want to tell you that I love you…
Suu Morishita’s manga has so far sold over 3,400,000 copies (including digital copies), and entered many award charts while receiving strong reactions across social networks .
Yuki, a deaf college student, is having trouble one day when a senior from her school, Itsuomi, helps her. Itsuomi did not feel uncomfortable because of his poor hearing and interacted with her naturally. As a new world gradually opens to her, Yuki begins to develop feelings for Itsuomi…
Thus begins the pure love story of Yuki, a deaf college student, and Itsuomi, her upperclassman, who travels around the world. the world with her.
Sumire Morohoshi plays Yuki Itose in the anime and Yū Miyazaki plays Itsuomi Nagi.
The previously announced cast members are:
Yūta Murano (Kakushigoto, Brave Beats) is in charge of the storyboards and is also the anime director at Ajia-do. Yoko Yonaiyama (Uma Yuru, Ya Boy Kongming!) is supervising and writing the script for the film. Kasumi Sakai (Animation Director for Love Live! Sunshine!!) is designing the characters and Yukari Hashimoto (March Comes Like a Lion, Komi Can’t Communicate, Am I Really the Strongest?) will Compose music.
Additional personnel include:
Morishita launched the manga in Kodansha’s Dessert magazine in July 2019. Kodansha USA is publishing the manga digitally in English. Kodansha’s K MANGA service is also publishing the manga digitally.
Source: website, Comic Natalie