The production team for the AYAKA original anime series has released a new visual and voice drama, featuring Shinto priest Haruaki Kurama and his pupils, Chataro Fukuwake and Yako Amano. The anime is scheduled to premiere in July 2023 and stream on Crunchyroll worldwide, outside of Japan.
A character trailer of Haruaki, Chataro, and Yako was released earlier this month.
The anime’s production staff includes Nobuyoshi Nagayama (Love Flops) as director, GoRA (K series) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Misaki Kaneko (Smile Down the Runway) as character designer, and Kana Shibue (Sasaki and Miyano) as music composer. Studio Blanc. is in charge of the animation production for the series.
The main voice cast includes Yuuto Uemura as Yukito, Takuma Terashima as Jingi, Kousuke Toriumi as Haruaki, Yuuki Sakakihara as Yako, Gakuto Kajiwara as Chataro. and Yuuichirou Umehara as Aka. Takahiro Sakurai was originally the voice of Haruaki, before being replaced by Toriumi this past March.
Crunchyroll describes the synopsis of AYAKA as:
The story follows Yukito Yanagi, an orphan who one day encounters an eccentric disciple of his father’s. The strange man takes him to his birthplace on Ayakajima, made up of seven islands where mysterious beings called “Mitama” and dragons are rumored to reside. There, Yukito meets his father’s two other disciples, who protect the harmony of Ayakajima… which soon threatens to collapse.
Source: AYAKA Official Anime Twitter
