The first new character images have been revealed for the upcoming The Shiunji Family Children television anime series, highlighting the eldest brother Banri Shiunji. The anime will premiere in Japan in 2025.
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Ryoki Kamitsubo (Main director of Hidamari Sketch, director of Softenni, Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence, artist and script director for Episodes 3 and 7) is directing the anime, with Noboru Kimura (Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture) directing the anime. is the series writer and Miki Muto (OSHI NO KO Season 2 co-animator training director) is the character designer and animation director. Akki, Ginnojo Hoshi and Shota Horie will serve as composers for the series. Doga Kobo is in charge of producing the animation.
Meanwhile, the anime's main voice cast will play the main roles:
• Yuichiro Umehara as Arata Shiunji • Chika Anzai as Banri Shiunji • Marika Kono as Seiha Shiunji • Rie Takahashi as Oka Shiunji • Hana Hishikawa as Minami Shiunji • Kana Ichinose as Kotono Shiunji • Chiaki Kobayashi as Shion Shiunji
The anime is based on Reiji Miyajima's romantic comedy manga Rent-A-Girlfriend, with Reiji Yukino as co-artist. The series began serialization in Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine on February 25, 2022, and has released five tankobon volumes as of October 2024.
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Yen Press published The Shiunji Family Children manga in English and describes the series as:
Love between brother and sister. Love between man and woman. The most forbidden thing is the most resilient thing. The two sons and five daughters of the Shiunji family shine like bright gems, each of equal intelligence and beauty. And with their wealthy father's pedigree behind them, how could they not be the talk of the town? Eldest son Arata has spent his life being swayed by the whims of his colorful sisters, yet a little teasing won't stop him from valuing his family above all else. anything and anyone else. But when his youngest sister turns fifteen, their father reveals a long-hidden secret about the Shiunji “siblings” and knocks Arata’s world off its axis…
