Kimi ni Todoke Anime season 3 reveals more cast, main cast returns

The third television anime season of Karuho Shiina’s Kimi ni Todoke-From Me to You manga announced its returning cast and main staff on Sunday (Sawako Kuronuma’s birthday).

The newly announced cast members are:

Miyuki Sawashiro as Ayane Yano

Yuko Sanpei as Chizuru Yoshida

Yūichi Nakamura as Ryū Sanada

Mamoru Miyano as Kento Miura

Yūki Ono as Kazuichi Arai (Battery)

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Aya Hirano as Ume Kurumizawa

Kenichi Matsuzawa (episode director of The Prince of Tennis, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These) is directing at Production IG Tomoko Konparu (NANA, Nodame Cantabile, Uta no Prince-sama-Maji Love 1000%) will return returned after the first two seasons to oversee the series’ script, and she is also co-writing the script with Michiko Yokote (Shirobako, Gintama). The musicians of SENS Project (xxxHOLiC, My Love Story!!) are also returning to composing music.

A compilation video combines footage from previous key episodes with new footage to recap the story so far in 10 minutes:

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Shiina also celebrated Sawako Kuronuma’s birthday with an illustration:

The manga tells the story of Sawako Kuronuma, nicknamed Sadako (in The Ring) because her long black hair and pale skin make her look gloomy. Shōta Kazehaya famously builds a friendship with Sawako and develops romantic feelings.

Mamiko Noto (Sawako Kuronuma) and Daisuke Namikawa (Shōta Kazehaya) will serve as their main voice actors, and Production IG will handle the animation duties. The first new season in 13 years will air exclusively on Netflix worldwide next year.

Shiina began writing the main manga Kimi ni Todoke in Shueisha’s shoujo magazine Bessatsu Margaret in 2006 and ended it in November 2017. Shueisha published the manga’s 30th and final compiled book volume in March 2018. Shiina ran Kimi ni Spinoff Manga Todoke Bangaihen: Unmei no Hito (Kimi ni Todoke Spinoff: Soulmate) in Bessatsu Margaret magazine from April 2018 to May 2022.

The series is consistently among the best-selling manga in Japan with 36 million copies in circulation (including digital copies). Viz Media publishes the English version of the manga and published the 30th compiled book volume in December 2018.

NIS America released both previous seasons of the television anime on home video. A live-action film adaptation debuted in Japan in 2010. Netflix debuted the live-action series on March 30.

Source: Natalie comics