#Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku Anime Reveals 1st Trailer and Key Visual, January Premiere

The Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku anime adaptation has received its first trailer and key visual. The former focuses on the two leads, while the latter also previews the supporting cast.

That supporting cast and its newly announced voice actors include Fuka Izumi as An Natsue, Shoya Chiba as Shodai Toka, Seiichiro Yamashita as Matsuyuki Akiyama, Kiyono Yasuno as Royko Totonoi, and Taito Ban as Setaro Hakoyama.

More staff credits and a January 2025 premiere window were also revealed, with the former including:

• Chief animation director: Ko Aine (“NekoKaburi Na” music video, the show’s character designer)
• Chief animation director: Satoshi Shimada (Mushoku Tensei Season 2 co-animation director)
• Art director: Shinobu Yamaguchi (Record of Ragnarok)
• Art director: Kanako Shirai (Gene of Ai co-artboard artist)
• Color designer: Naomi Nakano (Wistoria: Wand and Sword)
• Compositing director: Kohei Tanada (Arknights: Perish in Frost)
• Music composer: Masaru Yokoyama (Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night)

Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku is based on the manga written by Sound! Euphonium author Ayano Takeda and drawn by Musshu. The story concerns a school broadcast club on a small island with a population of 600.

The series began in 2021 in Shueisha’s Ultra Jump and has seven tankoubon volumes as of June 2024. The obi of the first volume featured a recommendation from popular hololive VTuber Hoshimachi Suisei.

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Staff

• Director: Ayumu Uwano (VSPO new logo animation PV co-director, Mushoku Tensei Season 2 TP Correction, Ep 6 storyboards and direction et al.; Onimai Episode 7 storyboards and direction) 
• Series composer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Shangri-la Frontier, Tis Time for Torture Princess) 
• Character designer: Ko Aine 
• Animation production: Studio Bind

Cast

• Minori Fujidera as Hana Aoyama
• Miyuri Shimabukuro as Mizuki Usurai

Source: @hanashura_PR