Hikasa plays Lord Enorme, Inoue plays Sister Gigant
Kadokawa announced two more actors and their respective characters for the television anime adaptation of Akihiro Ononaka’s Gushing Over Magical Girls (Mahō Shōjo ni Akogarete) manga on Thursday. Both characters appeared briefly at the end of the anime’s seventh episode on Wednesday, and will continue to appear in future anime episodes. The two actors include:
Yōko Hikasa as Lord Enorme
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Kikuko Inoue as Sister Gigant
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The anime premiered on AT-X on January 3 at 11:30 p.m. JST (9:30 a.m. EST) and it also runs on Tokyo MX, BS11, Sun TV and KBS Kyoto. The anime has three different versions: the television broadcast version, the “aircast” version on streaming services, and the “superstream” version on Blu-ray discs and DVDs. The broadcast television version censors sound and images, the “broadcast” version censors sound and some images, and the “super broadcast” version is also uncensored.
HIDIVE is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan and has a “fluid” version of the series available for streaming.
The anime’s main cast includes:
©小野中彰大・竹Tadato Suzuki (Fruits Basket 2019 episode director) and Atsushi Ootsuki (Kanokon: The Girl Who Cried Fox, Motto To Love Ru) are directing the anime at Asahi Production. Noboru Kimura (Gundam Build Divers, Skate-Leading Stars) is in charge of the series scripts and Yasuka Ōtaki (A Galaxy Next Door) is designing the characters. Satoshi Motoyama (16bit Sensation: Another Layer, Dragon Ball Z Kai) is the anime’s sound director, Yasuharu Takanashi (BASTARD!!-Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-), Akinari Suzuki (Giant Beasts of Ars) and Johannes Nilsson (Bakugan : Evolutions) is in charge of music and Lantis is in charge of music production.
J-Novel Club licensed the manga and describes the story:
Hello, I’m Hiiragi Utena. I’m a normal magic-loving middle school girl—or at least I was, but then some talking mascot suddenly appeared and cast a spell on me! Now is my chance to join my beloved magical girls as… a villain? Wait, there’s something wrong with my outfit! This cannot happen!
Watch this shy magical girl transform into a brutal dominatrix! When good and evil collide, who will be the one to serve?!
Ononaka launched the ongoing manga in 2019 in Takeshobo’s Manga Life Storia magazine. After the magazine ceased publication, the manga was moved to the magazine’s Storia Dash website.
Source: Press release
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