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Daisuke Ono s Osomatsu-san TV Anime's Cast
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The official website for Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic's Sinbad) will play the fifth son Jūshimatsu (pictured below).
The rest of previously announced main cast includes:
Mononoke's Medicine Seller) as the eldest son Osomatsu
Kimi ni Todoke's Ryū) as the second son Karamatsu
Noragami's Yato) as the third son Choromatsu
Wagnaria!!'s Sōta Takanashi) as the fourth son Ichimatsu
The staff are creating the new anime to commemorate what would have been Akatsuka's 80th birthday (Akatsuka ed away in 2008 at age 72).
Shiranpuri) is deg the characters.
Additional staff are as follows:
Art director: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Color key: Hanamaru Kindergarten)
Director of photography: Fullmetal Alchemist)
Editing: Dean Wonderland, Noragami)
Music: Penguindrum)
Music Production: Avex Pictures
Sound director: Haikyu!!)
Sound production: Rakuonsha
The series will premiere this fall.
The original manga and "high tension comedy" TV anime centered on the Matsuno household, which has six naughty and mischievous sons (who are sextuplets). All of the sextuplets, including the eldest Osomatsu, are all in love with the same girl, Totoko. The original series followed the family when the sons were 10 years old.
Other classic characters from the original manga such as Iyami, Chibita, Dekapan, Hatabō, and Dayōn will appear in the new series.
The first 56-episode series aired in Japan in 1966-1967. 86-episode series, which aired from 1988-1989. Shigino served as chief director.
Akatsuka launched the Osomatsu-kun manga in Comic BonBon from 1987-1990. The compiled manga volumes have more than 10 million copies in print.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
Images © Fujio Akatsuka / Osomatsu-san Production Committee
