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New Senran Kagura Anime's Returning Cast Listed
posted on by Karen Ressler
This year's October issue of Animedia listed 28 returning cast members for Senran Kagura Shinovi Master (Senran Kagura Shinovi Master -Tokyo Yōma-hen-), the second Senran Kagura television anime, on Monday. The cast members are returning from the games, the Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash! television anime, and the Senran Kagura: Estival Versus - Festival Eve Full of Swimsuits original video anime.
- Yumi Hara as Yumi
- Hisako Kanemoto as Murakumo
- Kaori Ishihara as Yozakura
- Ayano Yamamoto as Shiki
- Hiromi Igarashi as Minori
- Hitomi Harada as Asuka
- Asami Imai as Ikaruga
- Yu Kobayashi as Katsuragi
- Kaori Mizuhashi as Yagyuu
- Yuka Iguchi as Hibari
- Hiromi Hirata as Miyabi
- Sayuri Yahagi as Murasaki
- Chiwa Saito as Imu
- Yōko Hikasa as Ryōbi
- Mako as Ryōna
- Eri Kitamura as Homura
- Ai Kayano as Yomi
- Ryoko Shiraishi as Hikage
- Saori Goto as Mirai
- Megumi Toyoguchi as Haruka
- Yuki Matsuoka as Kagura
- Yuko Kaida as Naraku
- Minami Tsuda as Renka
- Sora Tokui as Hanabi
- Shiori Izawa as Kafuru
- Kana Asumi as Fubuki
- Riko Kohara as Gekkō
- Akane Fujita as Senkō
The season will will premiere in October on AT-X. Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs.
Tetsuya Yanagisawa (High School DxD, Daimidaler: Prince vs. Penguin Empire) is directing the anime at TNK (Doreiku The Animation, High School DxD BorN). Yukinori Kitajima (BBK/BRNK, Brynhildr in the Darkness), who provided the original story for the first television anime, is returning to handle series composition and the script. Junji Goto (School Days, High School DxD BorN) is designing the characters and serving as chief animation director with Tsutomu Miyazawa (Samurai Bride, Soul Buster). Series producer Kenichirō Takaki is returning as "bakunyū producer" (large breast producer), and Keisuke Kawai (High School DxD BorN, Daimidaler: Prince vs. Penguin Empire production producer) is animation producer.
Other staff members include:
- Prop Design: Yasuhiro Moriki, Yutaka Miya
- Art Setting: Junko Nagasawa (Production AI)
- Art Director: Yoshimi Umino (Production AI)
- Color Design: Aiko Matsuyama (Typhoon Graphics)
- Director of Photography: Hiroyuki Chiba (Anime Film)
- Editting: Takashi Sakurai (Typhoon Graphics)
- Sound Director: Hiroto Morishita
- Music: Noisycroak
- Sound Production: Lantis
Sayaka Sasaki is performing the new season's opening theme song "Scarlet Master." Sasaki also performed the first season's opening song. Mia REGINA is performing the ending theme song "Junsei Erotic" (Genuine Erotic).
The Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash! television anime premiered in 2013, followed by the Senran Kagura: Estival Versus - Festival Eve Full of Swimsuits original video anime (OVA) in 2015. Funimation streamed the television series as it aired in Japan, and released the series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD.
Source: Animedia October issue
