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Blue Orchestra TV Anime Reveals 6 More Cast

Ao no Orchestra (The Blue Orchestra) manga on Thursday.

The newly announced cast includes (pictured above from left to right, starting with top row):

• Konomi Kohara as Mari Tateishi
• Kaori Maeda as Chika Yonezawa
• Jun Fukushima as Osamu Shibata
• Chiwa Saitō as Hajime Aono's mother
• Hayato Kaneko as Takeda-sensei
• Daisuke Ono as Hiroaki Ayukawa

The anime stars: (musical performers in parentheses)

• Ryōta Higashi) as Hajime Aono
• Yurie Yamada) as Ritsuko Akine
• Nao Saeki
• Kyoko Ogawa) as Haru Kozakura
• Haruma Satō) as Ichirō Yamada
• Karen Kido) as Shizuka Tachibana
• Tomotaka Seki) as Yō Hatori
• María Dueñas) as Sō Harada
• Hilary Hahn) as Ryūjin Aono

The anime will NHK Educational on April 9 at 5:00 p.m. JST.

Kazuaki Morita (Assassination Classroom, Classroom of the Elite, Persona 4 The Animation) is deg the characters.

Indonesian publisher Elex Media has released the manga, and it describes the story:

In the fall of his third and final year of middle school, Hajime Aono, a violin prodigy, stopped playing violin for his own personal reasons. But it was also that year when he got to know a girl who told him about a high school with a prestigious school orchestra. Suddenly, the gears in the clock of Aono's life began to turn again. This is the story of a youth drama that brings forth the harmony between music and the heart!

Akui launched the ongoing manga in won the Best Shōnen Manga award at the 68th Shogakukan Manga Awards in January.

Sources: NHK, Comic Natalie