Written by: Nicole Castro
Published on: October 1, 2021 at 18:38 PHT (GMT+8)
The official website and social media accounts for school life manga Akebi's Sailor Uniform by Hiro have announced that the series is getting a TV anime adaptation, to broadcast in January 2022.
Below is the official first promotional video (PV), introducing us to the beginning of protagonist Komichi Akebi's new life at Roubai Academy.
The official Twitter account for the series has also published the key visual (KV), featuring Akebi in her sailor uniform.
Cast
Manatsu Murakami (村上まなつ) as Komichi Akebi
Sora Amamiya (雨宮天) as Erika Kizaki
Akari Kitō (鬼頭明里) as Tōko Usagihara
Shion Wakayama (若山詩音) as Tomono Kojō
Staff
Original work: Hiro (serialized in Shueisha's "Tonari no Young Jump")
Director: Miyuki Kuroki
Character design: Megumi Kouno
Series composition and Screenplay: Rino Yamazaki
Character design: Megumi Kouno
Sub-character design: Taishi Kawakami, Masato Anno
General animation directors: Megumi Kouno, Taishi Kawakami, Masato Anno
Art setting: Yoshinori Shiozawa
Art director: Hisayo Usui, Yasuhisa Moriyasu
Color design: Asuka Yokota
Cinematographer: Hiroki Kawashita (MADBOX)
3D director: Yohei Miyahara
Character retouch: Capsule
Editing: Akari Saito (Mishima Hensyu)
Music: Kana Utatane
Sound director: Takatoshi Hamano
Production: CloverWorks
About Akebi's Sailor Uniform
"Akebi's Sailor Uniform" (明日ちゃんのセーラー服, Akebi-chan no Sērāfuku) is a Japanese manga series by Hiro. It has been serialized online via Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump website since August 2016. An anime television series adaptation by CloverWorks is set to premiere in January 2022.
Synopsis from MAL:
Akebi Komichi lives out in the countryside with her family. She's won entrance to the prestigious Roubai Academy middle school for girls and now she wants only two things—to wear the school's sailor uniform and to make a hundred friends!
Source: Akebi's Sailor Uniform official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie
