The official website for the upcoming Skip & Loafer slice-of-life anime has revealed the addition of five more voice cast members. A 15-second promotional video highlighting the new characters was also released. The anime series is scheduled to premiere on April 4, 2023.
The additional voice cast consists of Mitsuki Saiga as Nao, Hikaru Tanaka as Tsukasa Mukai, Ayumu Murase as Kento Yamada, Ryouhei Kimura as Narumi Kanechika, and Minami Tsuda as Tokiko Takamine. They join a main voice cast that includes Tomoyo Kurosawa as Mitsumi Iwakura, Akinori Egoshi as Sosuke Shima, Yuka Terasaki as Mika Egashira, Maaya Uchida as Yuzuki Murashige, and Megumi Han as Makoto Kurume.
Kotomi Deai (Natsume’s Book of Friends director) is serving as director and series screenwriter for the anime series, with Yuriko Abe (The Aquatope on White Sand episode director and storyboarder) as assistant director, and Takatsugu Wakabayashi (Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer) as music composer. P.A. Works is in charge of the animation production.
Other staff members include e-Caesar as art director, Yuuko Kobari (Inu-Oh) as color designer, Kazuto Izumida (The Heike Story) as photography director, and Manami Umeshita (Stella Women`s Academy, High School Division Class C3 character designer) as character designer and one of the chief animation directors.
The anime is based on the manga series by Misaki Takamatsu, which began serialization in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon on August 25, 2018. Eight tankoubon volumes have been released under the Afternoon KC label as of January 2023. Seven Seas Entertainment releases the manga in English.
Crunchyroll will stream Skip & Loafer and describes the anime as:
Iwakura Mitsumi graduated from a small middle school in the countryside and entered a top-tier high school in Tokyo at the head of the class. This child prodigy, who moved to Tokyo alone with a perfect life plan, is smart and gets good grades… but her social understanding isn’t quite on the same wavelength as others. This means that she sometimes makes mistakes, but her easygoing nature sways her classmates little by little, and all their different personalities are coming together before they know it.
They meet and gradually come to know each other, and before long they understand each other well. Everyone experiences pent-up feelings and frustrations, but it is our friends who give us a chance at mutual understanding. This story may start out with some discord, but it becomes a happy school-life comedy before you know it!
