{"id":61979,"date":"2023-05-24T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=61979"},"modified":"2023-05-24T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T16:54:49","slug":"ayaka-reveals-new-visual-voice-drama-featuring-aka-ibara-makita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/05\/24\/ayaka-reveals-new-visual-voice-drama-featuring-aka-ibara-makita\/","title":{"rendered":"AYAKA Reveals New Visual, Voice Drama Featuring Aka, Ibara &amp; Makita"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new visual and voice drama have been revealed for the upcoming original anime <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AYAKA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, featuring the characters Aka, Ibara, and Makita. The anime series is scheduled to premiere sometime in July 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new voice drama video features <\/span><b>Kana Hanazawa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as the twin-tailed Ibara Ichijou, <\/span><b>Jun Fukuyama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Taihei Makita, and <\/span><b>Yuuichirou Umehara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Aka Ibuki. The first two characters appeared in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/05\/10\/ayaka-anime-reveals-new-trailer-more-characters\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">new trailer for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AYAKA<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> earlier this month and are members of Ayaka Security, an organization led by Aka that deals with entities called Aramitama.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30aa\u30ea\u30b8\u30ca\u30eb\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300eAYAKA \u2010\u3042\u3084\u304b\u2010\u300f\u30dc\u30a4\u30b9\u30c9\u30e9\u30de\u2462 \u6731&amp;\u3044\u3070\u3089&amp;\u85aa\u7530\uff5c2023\u5e747\u6708\u653e\u9001\u958b\u59cb\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rK_SfPkMzCU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shinto priest Haruaki Kurama and his pupils, Chataro Fukuwake and Yako Amano, also received a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/04\/26\/ayaka-releases-new-haruaki-chatarou-yako-visual-voice-drama\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">similar visual and vocal drama<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this past April.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The anime\u2019s production staff includes <\/span><b>Nobuyoshi Nagayama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Love Flops<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as director, <\/span><b>GoRA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">K<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> series) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, <\/span><b>Misaki Kaneko<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smile Down the Runway<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as character designer, and <\/span><b>Kana Shibue<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sasaki and Miyano<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as music composer. <\/span><b>Studio Blanc. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is handling the animation production for the anime.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the anime\u2019s voice cast includes<\/span><b> Yuuto Uemura<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Yukito Yanagi, <\/span><b>Takuma Terashima<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Jingi Sagawa, <\/span><b>Kousuke Toriumi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Haruaki Kurama, <\/span><b>Gakuto Kajiwara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Chataro Fukuwake, and <\/span><b>Yuuki Sakakihara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Yako Amano. <\/span><b>Takahiro Sakurai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was originally the voice of Haruaki, but was replaced by Toriumi in February.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58421\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58421\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/25\/ayaka-original-anime-to-begin-in-july\/ayaka_illustration\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ayaka_illustration.jpg?fit=1000%2C715&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,715\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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=\"ayaka_illustration\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ayaka_illustration.jpg?fit=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ayaka_illustration.jpg?fit=696%2C498&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-58421\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ayaka_illustration.jpg?resize=650%2C466&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ayaka illustration visual\" width=\"650\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ayaka_illustration.jpg?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ayaka_illustration.jpg?resize=768%2C549&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ayaka_illustration.jpg?resize=696%2C498&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ayaka_illustration.jpg?resize=587%2C420&amp;ssl=1 587w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ayaka_illustration.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 GoRA\u30fb\u200bKINGRECORDS\uff0f\u200bProject AYAKA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crunchyroll will stream <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AYAKA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> worldwide, outside of Japan, and describes the synopsis as:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The story follows Yukito Yanagi, an orphan who one day encounters an eccentric disciple of his father&#8217;s. The strange man takes him to his birthplace on Ayakajima, made up of seven islands where mysterious beings called &#8220;Mitama&#8221; and dragons are rumored to reside. There, Yukito meets his father&#8217;s two other disciples, who protect the harmony of Ayakajima\u2026 which soon threatens to collapse.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AYAKA_animePR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AYAKA Official Japanese Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new visual and voice drama have been revealed for the upcoming original anime AYAKA, featuring the characters Aka, Ibara, and Makita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":61982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5704,78,5474],"class_list":["post-61979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-ayaka","tag-crunchyroll","tag-studio-blanc-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ayaka-voice-drama-visual-aka-ibara-makita-e1684947018248.jpg?fit=2000%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-g7F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61979"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61984,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61979\/revisions\/61984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}