{"id":139287,"date":"2025-11-10T02:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=139287"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:48:16","slug":"scenes-from-awajima-reveals-2nd-character-visual-ai-kayano-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/11\/10\/scenes-from-awajima-reveals-2nd-character-visual-ai-kayano-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from Awajima Reveals 2nd Character Visual, Ai Kayano Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A second character visual for the upcoming <em>Scenes from Awajima<\/em> (<em>Awajima Hyakkei<\/em>) TV anime has been released. The previewed characters are Kinue Takehara and Ryoko Ueda, who attended the same middle school.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Ai Kayano<\/strong> was announced as the voice of Ryoko.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"984\" data-attachment-id=\"139289\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/11\/10\/scenes-from-awajima-reveals-2nd-character-visual-ai-kayano-casting\/scenes-from-awajima-character-visual-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?fit=849%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"849,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Scenes from Awajima character visual 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?fit=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?resize=696%2C984&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139289\" style=\"width:533px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?resize=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 724w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?resize=768%2C1086&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?resize=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?resize=297%2C420&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2.jpeg?w=849&amp;ssl=1 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a9\u5fd7\u6751\u8cb4\u5b50\u30fb\u592a\u7530\u51fa\u7248\uff0f\u6de1\u5cf6\u767e\u666f\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Scenes from Awajima\u00a0<\/em>is based on the omnibus manga by <strong>Takako Shimura<\/strong>, which revolves around characters related to the<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Awashima Girls\u2019 Opera School. The anime will premiere in April 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ohta Publishing-published manga began in June 2011 and ended in March 2024. It was first serialized in the now-defunct Pocopoco before moving to Ohta Web Comic. The series <\/span><span style=\"color: initial\">received an Award for Excellence in the manga category of the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director:<span style=\"color: initial\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"color: initial\">Morio Asaka<\/strong><span style=\"color: initial\">&nbsp;(<\/span><em style=\"color: initial\">Cardcaptor Sakura<\/em><span style=\"color: initial\">,&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"color: initial\">Chihayafuru<\/em><span style=\"color: initial\">,&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"color: initial\">Loving Yamada at Lv999!<\/em><span style=\"color: initial\">)&nbsp;<br>\u2022 Character designer:<strong>&nbsp;Kunihiko Hamada<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Loving Yamada at Lv999!<\/em>)<br>\u2022 Series composer:&nbsp;<strong>Yasuhiro Nakanishi<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Kaguya-sama: Love is War<\/em>)<br>\u2022 Background art director:<strong>&nbsp;Hideki Nakamura<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Inu-Oh<\/em>)<br>\u2022 Compositing director:<strong>&nbsp;Junko Sakai<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Your Forma<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Loving Yamada at Lv999!<\/em>)<br>\u2022 Music composer:&nbsp;<strong>Takahiro Obata<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary<\/em>)<br>\u2022 Animation production: <\/span><strong style=\"color: initial\">Madhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Nina Nakabayashi<\/strong> as Wakana<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Yo Taichi<\/strong> as Kinue Takahara<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/awajima_anime\/status\/1987807446400946633\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">@awajima_anime<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second character visual for the upcoming Scenes from Awajima (Awajima Hyakkei) TV anime has been released. The previewed characters are Kinue Takehara and Ryoko Ueda, who attended the same middle school. Ai Kayano was announced as the voice of Ryoko. Scenes from Awajima\u00a0is based on the omnibus manga by Takako Shimura, which revolves around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":139290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[14,1625,2286,122,11334,12088],"class_list":["post-139287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-madhouse","tag-manga","tag-ohta-publishing","tag-scenes-from-awajima"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scenes-from-Awajima-character-visual-2-1-e1762771569361.jpeg?fit=850%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-Aez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139292,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139287\/revisions\/139292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}