Anime Spotlight - Girlish Number
by Chih-Chieh Chang,
Key Staff
- Director: Shota Ihata
- ("Kan Colle (TV)" as episode director (eps 2, 11),"Medaka Box (TV)" as episode director (eps 1, 5, 8, 12))
- Series Composition: Wataru Watari
- ("My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!" as original creator (light novel))
- Character Design: Sumie Kinoshita
- (The Mystic Archives of Dantalian)
Story
Wanna be a Voice Actor? Wanna hit the Jackpot!?
University student Chitose Karasuma dives into the voice acting industry full of dreams, hope, and ambition - but what is the reality that awaits her? Young women with wildly different personalities and backgrounds find themselves friends and competitors at the same time, but may need to join together to find the fame and fortune they all crave in this entertaining look into voice acting industry featuring a number of original pop songs.
Characters
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Chitose Karasuma (CV: Sayaka Senbongi)
Rookie voice actress that looks cute but has a terrible personality. Can get carried away often and gets depressed easily. Feels a sense of crisis that all her roles are part of the background mob. Agency: Number One Produce |
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Yae Kugayama (CV: Kaede Hondo)
Chitose's friend and classmate during voice acting school. Her natural-born cunning is hated by some women. Always on a diet. Agency: Number One Produce |
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Koto Katakura (CV: Yui Ishikawa)
An older sister figure who speaks the Kansai dialect and resides in the same agency as Chitose. She is not popular, so she also works a part-time job. Agency: Number One Produce |
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Momoka Sono (CV: Eri Suzuki)
A high school student that is an active idol voice actress musician. Her parents are big names in the industry, and that may be a part of why she has such a cheeky personality. Agency: Voice Enterprise |
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Kazuha Shibasaki (CV: Saori Onishi)
Highly conscious voice actor who longs to be a real actress. Popular but dissatisfied with the current state of work where she often has to do jobs that are not acting and voices for anime based on light novels.. Agency: Iroha Production |
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Kuzu Producer (CV: Kazuya Nakai)
A talented(?) producer that works on planning and producing anime titles. Looks showy, and the personality is pretty showy too. |
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Gojo Karasuma (CV: Yūichirō Umehara)
Chitose's big brother and manager. Always has a headache due to his little sister's attitude that underestimates her work. |
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Assistant Producer Towada (CV: Takuya Eguchi)
The assistant producer that supports Kuzu Producer. A mild-mannered person, and works in earnest as much as his supervisor is showy. |
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President Namba (CV: Kenyu Horiuchi)
The president of Number One Produce, a voice acting agency. Has a dynamic personality that joins up with others' moods well. |
Cast
- Chitose Karasuma
- Sayaka Senbongi
- Yae Kugayama
- Kaede Hondo
- Koto Katakura
- Yui Ishikawa
- Momoka Sono
- Eri Suzuki
- Kazuha Shibasaki
- Saori Onishi
- Kuzu Producer
- Kazuya Nakai
- Gojo Karasuma
- Yūichirō Umehara
- Assistant Producer Towada
- Takuya Eguchi
- President Namba
- Kenyu Horiuchi
Staff
- Original Story
- Project GN
- Original Works, Series Supervisor
- Wataru Watari
- Original Character Design
- QP:flapper
- Director
- Shota Ihata
- Character Design
- Sumie Kinoshita
- Art Director
- Yoshimi Mineta
- Design Works
- Masakazu Ishikawa
- Visual Director
- Kenji Masuda
- Color Coordinator
- Yuki Hayashi
- Director of Photography
- Yasuyuki Ito
- Editing
- Toshihiko Kojima
- Animation Production
- diomedéa
- Theme Songs
- OP "Bloom" sung by Girlish Number (Chitose, Momoka, Kazuha, Yae and Koto)
ED "Ima wa Mijikashi Yume Miyo Otome" sung by Girlish Number (Chitose, Momoka, Kazuha, Yae and Koto)
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