A new visual and voice drama have been revealed for the upcoming original anime AYAKA, featuring the characters Aka, Ibara, and Makita. The anime series is scheduled to premiere sometime in July 2023.
The new voice drama video features Kana Hanazawa as the twin-tailed Ibara Ichijou, Jun Fukuyama as Taihei Makita, and Yuuichirou Umehara as Aka Ibuki. The first two characters appeared in a new trailer for AYAKA earlier this month and are members of Ayaka Security, an organization led by Aka that deals with entities called Aramitama.
Shinto priest Haruaki Kurama and his pupils, Chataro Fukuwake and Yako Amano, also received a similar visual and vocal drama this past April.
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 handling the animation production for the anime.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes Yuuto Uemura as Yukito Yanagi, Takuma Terashima as Jingi Sagawa, Kousuke Toriumi as Haruaki Kurama, Gakuto Kajiwara as Chataro Fukuwake, and Yuuki Sakakihara as Yako Amano. Takahiro Sakurai was originally the voice of Haruaki, but was replaced by Toriumi in February.
Crunchyroll will stream AYAKA worldwide, outside of Japan, and describes the synopsis 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 Japanese Twitter
