This year's 12th issue of Akita Shoten's Young Champion magazine announced the three main cast members and an October premiere date for the television anime adaptation of Kōji Shinasaka's Tōhai-Ura Route Mahjong Tōhairoku manga on Tuesday. The cast includes:
Kohsuke Tanabe as Kei
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Shunsuke Takeuchi as Tōjima
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Fairouz Ai as Amina
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Jun Hatori is directing the anime at EAST FISH STUDIO. Mariko Kunisawa is supervising the series' scripts, Sayaka Anesaki is designing the characters, and Yūsuke Shirato and Yuki Kishida are composing the music.
Pony Canyon describes the anime:
Money, women, organs. Kei, a male high school student, frequents the underground mahjong parlor filled with lust, earning him the nickname 'K of Ice' in the underworld thanks to his cold strategy and stylish play. There are rumors that he keeps a girl at his house.
Shinasaka serialized the manga in Akita Shoten's Young Champion magazine from 2006 to 2011 and the series has 12 volumes. Other works in the series include the 16-volume Tōhai: Hitobashira-hen manga, the 10-volume Tōhai: Minagoroshi-hen manga, the 4-volume Haō Densetsu Lion manga, the 5-volume Haō Kessen Lion manga, and Tōhai: The Cool Girl Manga. Tōhai: Cold Girl is ongoing and currently has 5 volumes. The sixth volume was published on January 18.
The manga inspired a live-action film in 2013.
Update: Added character images. Source: Comic Natalie
Source: Young Champion issue 12
