'Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru' Unveils Additional Cast, Staff, Theme Songs, First Promo

by Doshigatai
Mar 1, 6:07 AM | 1 Comment

The official website of the Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru television anime revealed additional cast, staff, second key visual (pictured), theme songs and the first promotional video on Friday. The anime is scheduled to premiere on April 7 at 11:30 p.m. on AT-X, followed by Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, BS11, and Aomori Broadcasting.

Cast
Shouta Igarashi: Junta Terashima (Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai)
Yoshiaki Saitou: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Fruits Basket 1st Season)
Kaede Saitou: Tomo Sakurai (Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan)

Staff
Sub-character Design: Yuuji Hamada (Isekai One Turn Kill Neesan: Ane Douhan no Isekai Seikatsu Hajimemashita), Maho Tanabe (Synduality: Noir assistant animation director)
Art Director: Tomoka Ishida (Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai background art)
Color Design: Azusa Sasaki (Kitaku-bu Katsudou Kiroku)
Director of Photography: Atsushi Tamura (Mahoutsukai Reimeiki)
Editing: Keisuke Yanagi (Itazura na Kiss)
Sound Director: Nobuyuki Abe (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai)
Sound Effects: Junichirou Suzuki (Temple)
Music Production: On-Lead
Animation Producer: Minoru Hirata (Choukadou Girl ⅙)

Singer-songwriter Koresawa is performing the opening theme "Kimi ga Ojiichan Atashi ga Obaachan." Shinichiro Miki and Mamiko Noto will perform the ending theme "Soitoge YO-YO!!" as their respective characters. Both theme songs are previewed in the promotional video below.

Masayoshi Nishita (Allison to Lillia) is helming the anime at Gekkou. Yukie Sugawara (Sentouin, Hakenshimasu!) is handling the series composition and Nagisa Takahashi (Mahoutsukai Reimeiki chief animation director) is designing the characters. Tomoki Hasegawa (Nazo no Kanojo X) is composing the music.

The anime adapts Kagiri Araido's romantic comedy manga, which they originally launched on their official Twitter and pixiv accounts in October 2019 before beginning serialization in Comic Alunna in July 2022. Kadokawa published the seventh volume on August 16.

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Source: Comic Natalie