Premieres July 8, 2018 (JST)

Key Staff

Director: Seiji Kishi

(Angel Beats! (TV), Assassination Classroom (TV), Yuki Yuna Is a Hero (TV), Persona 4 The Animation (TV))

Series Composition: Yuuko Kakihara

(Digimon Adventure tri., Heaven's Lost Property, Persona 4 The Animation, Unbreakable Machine-Doll)

Character Design: Keiko Kurosawa

(Scum's Wish)

Introduction

The genius author Rin Suzukawa breaks through barriers of comedy in this hilarious manga serializing in the Young Animal magazine following the lives of middle school girls. Asobi Asobase is now an anime!

Olivia is a girl born and raised in Japan, but despite her blonde hair, she can't speak English. Kasumi is a girl with short hair and glasses who is terrible at English despite the serious and intelligent air she has. And finally, Hanako is a pigtailed girl who dreams of becoming normal. These three girls formed the "Playing Committe." The curtain raises on the laugh-out-loud, amazingly cute, amazingly fun middle school girls!

Character Names & Descriptions

	Hanako Honda Voice: Hina Kino An energetic and bright girl who can both play sports and hit the books. However, that doesn't mean she's the smartest knife in the drawer. She admires normies with fulfilling lives, and she's currently part of her middle school's soft tennis team in order to become one herself. However, there seems to be no hope of her becoming normal anytime in the near future.
	Olivia Voice: Rika Nagae A blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl who transferred into Hanako's midde school. Both of her parents are non-Japanese, and her appearance might make you think she knows English, but she's actually really bad at it because she was born and raised in Japan. In fact, she can barely speak a word of English.
	Kasumi Nomura Voice: Konomi Kohara A girl who appears to be a goody-two-shoes who reads book in the classroom after school, but she's actually extremely unskilled at English. She asks Olivia to teach her English. Her large breasts don't look like those of a middle schooler's.

Cast

Hanako Honda

Hina Kino

Olivia

Rika Nagae

Kasumi Nomura

Konomi Kohara

Maeda

Ryōtarō Okiayu

Student Council President

Honoka Inoue

Oka-san

Mai Kanazawa

Agrippa

Megumi Toda

Tsugumi Aozora

Aoi Yūki

Higuchi-sensei

Ryōko Maekawa

Sainan-sensei

Yasunori Masutani

Takayanagi-sensei

Mitsuki Saiga

Kentaro Honda

Eishin Fudemura

Narrator

Maki Izawa

Staff

Original Creator

Rin Suzukawa (Serialized in Hakusensha's "Young Animal")

Director

Seiji Kishi

Series Composition

Yuuko Kakihara

Character Design

Keiko Kurosawa

Assistant Director

Yū Kinome

Color Design

Sakiko Ito

Director of Photography

Shinyo Kondo (DEEN digital)

Background Art

KUSANAGI

Editing

Morita Editing Room

Sound Director

Satoki Iida

Music

Masato Kōda

Animation Producer

Yūji Higa

Animation Production

Lerche

Opening Theme Song:

"Suripisu"
Performed by Hina Kino as Hanako Honda, Rika Nagae as Olivia, Konomi Kohara as Kasumi Nomura

Ending Theme Song:

"Inkya-impulse"
Performed by Hina Kino as Hanako Honda, Rika Nagae as Olivia, Konomi Kohara as Kasumi Nomura

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