TV Anime "Kagi etc." Official Website Opens! Broadcasting and distribution information, main characters, cast, and staff are now available!

Bushiroad today, September 24, 2021 (Friday), officially opened the official website of the TV anime "Kagi etc." for which Bushiroad is the representative organizer, and released broadcast and distribution information, main characters and cast, and staff.

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TV anime "Kagi-etc." is Key's first crossover world animation project, produced as Key's 20th media mix project.
As a Key original animation series, the original work and VISUAL ARTS/Key joined the production, and the characters who transcended works and eras and gathered in one school will be colored with new possibilities.

In the year 2021, the original story of the characters who have begun to shine once again will finally begin.

The late Tomoko Kawakami played the role of Kanrin Kamio in "AIR," but as a result of discussions and deliberations, it was decided to change the cast to Asami Sanada starting with this production.
Comments from the original creator, Key, and Asami Sanada regarding the cast change have been received, so be sure to check them out.

The original game brand, Key

For the past 20 years, the game maker Visual Arts and its brand Key have always had a special relationship.
Ever since their debut work "Kanon," which moved the hearts of impressionable game users in June 1999, "AIR," which was released the following year and whose theme song "Tori no Uta" was called "Nation," and "CLANNAD," which is also known as "Life," in 2004, were received with shock, Key's --Since then, Key's stories about boys and girls with harsh fates and the "crying games" that have become synonymous with them and their characters have always captured the hearts of users.
Since then, the company has released not only games, but also animation, music, and many other works.
The theme song "My Soul, Your Beats!" for Key's TV anime "Angel Beats!" reached No. 1 on the Billboard JAPAN Indie Sales Chart in 2010. planetarian" and "Little Busters! and "Rewrite" has been successfully translated on a crowdfunding site.

In Japan, "Summer Pockets" won the grand prize at the 2018 Moe Game Awards, "Kudo Wafatoo" will be released as a theatrical anime in 2021, and the social game "Heaven Burns Red" is scheduled to be launched later that year in collaboration with GREE, Inc. Later that year, the company plans to launch the social game "Heaven Burns Red" in collaboration with GREE.

[Broadcasting and distribution information

Broadcasting and distribution information] "Heaven Burns Red" will begin on October 12, 2021, at midnight on Tuesday, on various broadcasting stations and distribution platforms!

＜TV Broadcasting
TOKYO MX From October 12, every Tuesday at 25:00～ KBS Kyoto From October 13, every Wednesday at 25:00
KBS Kyoto From October 13, every Wednesday at 25:00~.
Sun TV Every Wednesday from October 13th at 26:00~.
Niigata TV21 From October 14, every Thursday at 26:15
Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting, every Saturday from October 16, 26:35
Nagano Asahi Broadcasting, every Monday from October 18 at 26:55
Hokkaido Television Broadcasting From October 19, every Tuesday at 27:50
BS Nittele From October 16 every Saturday at 24:28
AT-X From October 14, every Thursday at 22:16
Broadcast dates and times are subject to change without notice.

<Distribution platform
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 from 25:30
Abema TV
Amazon prime video
DMM.com
FOD
GYAO! Store
Music.jp
U-NEXT
dAnime Store
Float Video
Nico Nico Douga
Bandai Channel
Video Market
*Date and period of distribution may vary depending on the distribution platform.

＜Synopsis
The "Private Key Academy".
It is a magical land ...... where legendary fans of Key have gathered for more than 20 years, squeezing more tears from Key fans all over the world than the total water volume of Lake Biwa (estimated), or an ideal world.
Not content with just the lachrymal glands of their fans, they finally broke down even the walls of the world and gathered here to celebrate a new school life in a new world.
Freedom to any extent.
Fun to the end.
Happy to the end. A dream-like story is about to begin.

＜Main characters and cast
Yuichi Aizawa Tomokazu Sugita
Tsukimiya Ayu Horie Yui
MIZUSE Nayuki KUNIFUDA Mariko
Mai Kawasumi Yukari Tamura
Misaka Shiori Sato Akemi
Makoto Sawatari Masayumi Iizuka
Kunisaki Oujin Ono Daisuke
Kanzu Kamio Asami Sanada
Yoshino Kirishima Ayara Takeda
Minagi Tono Ryoka Yuzuki
Tomoya Okazaki Yuichi Nakamura
Nagisa Furukawa Mai Nakahara
Anne Fujibayashi Ryo Hirohashi
Muku Fujibayashi Akemi Kanda
Tomoyo Sakaue Noriko Kuwashima
Fumiko Ibuki Ai Nonaka
Kotomi Ichinose Mamiko Noto
Yohei Haruhara Daisuke Sakaguchi
Naoe Riki Horie Yui
Natsume Suzu Tomoe Tamiyasu
Natsume Kyosuke Midorikawa Hikaru
Masato Inohara Nobutoshi Kanna
Kengo Miyazawa Yusei Oda
Komari Kamikita Natsumi Yanase
Ruka Saegusa Ruyoshi Suzuki Keiko Suzuki
Kudryavka Nohmi Naomi Wakabayashi
Yuhko Kuraigaya Ryoko Tanaka
Mio Nishizono Shiho Kawaraki
Koutaro Tennoji Seiichi Morita
Kotori Kobe Chiwa Saito
Chihaya Hou Saya Shinomiya
Akemi Senri Eri Kitamura
Shizuru Nakatsu Keiko Suzuki
Lucia Konohana Risa Asaki
Bonfire Kana Hanazawa
Hoshino Yumemi SUZUKI Keiko
and others

＜Staff
Original Story VISUAL ARTS/Key
Director Kazuya Sakamoto
Series Structure IOKOSHI Takashi
Script by Takashi Aokoshimashi, Kai, Takano Toya
Character Design Eriko Haga
Prop Design Kazunari Araki
Art Director Yukihiro Shibuya
Color Designer Asami Kitsuwa
Director of Photography Tomoaki Suzuki
Editing Kazuo Kajikawa
Sound Director Akane Maeda
Sound Production TOHOKUSHINSHA
Music Production VISUAL ARTS/Key
Animation Production: Leiden Film Kyoto Studio

＜About the cast change of the role of Kanrin Kamio
As a result of discussions and deliberations among various parties, it has been decided that the role of Kanrin Kamio, previously played by the late Tomoko Kawakami in "AIR", will be replaced by Asami Sanada starting with this production.
As a result of discussions and deliberations, it has been decided that Asami Sanada will play the role of Kanrin Kamio in this new production.

Key Comment
The late Tomoko Kawakami had been playing the role of Kanrin Kamio in "AIR" since the home video game version released in 2001. After much discussion, we have decided to change the cast of Kanrin Kamio, as she is an indispensable character in the "AIR" series.

After holding auditions and discussions with the development staff of the game version of "AIR," we are pleased to announce that Asami Sanada will play the role of Kan-ring Kamio.

Key

Comment from Asami Sanada
When I was asked to audition for the role, I remembered Ms. Kawakami from when we worked together on the radio and in the anime.
I admired the way she played her character with a lot of energy and cheerfulness, no matter what the role was!

I felt that it was because you played such a role that the work and the role were firmly embedded in the hearts of those who watched it.

When I was informed that I had been accepted, I had goosebumps, and even as I write this comment, I feel once again the magnitude of the role and the responsibility.

I will once again firmly hold on to what I felt I wanted to cherish, and I will firmly carry on the Kanrin that Mr. Kawakami has so carefully spun!

Asami Sanada

Production Studio and Director

Leiden Film Corporation
An animation production studio established in February 2012.
With studios in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Fukaya, the studio has produced the "Arslan Senki" series, "Hanebado! Layton Mystery Detective Agency: Katry's Nazotoki File," "Initial D" and many other animation productions.
Tokyo Revengers," "Sayonara me no Krammer," and "Seven Knights Revolution -Hero no Successor-" will begin airing in April 2021.

Leiden Film Kyoto Studio
Established with the aim of producing animation for TV, movies, commercials, etc. from Kyoto-Kansai.
After releasing "Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko -Everything Flows-" as Kyoto Studio's first original work in 2016, "Senritsu no Lucifer: The Only One Beginning Song" and "More, Falling in Love with the City," which are available on YouTube. and the original animation "GENJI FANTASY: A Cat Falls in Love with Hikaru Genji" currently showing at the Tale of Genji Museum in Uji City.
The studio's first theatrical production, "Doukanai Hibi," was released in 2020.
Taking advantage of being a regional studio, the studio also focuses on cooperation with the government and other industries, as well as training newcomers.

Director：Kazuya Sakamoto

Director/Animator
Born in Okayama Prefecture in 1980 and currently resides in Kansai.
After working at Kyoto Animation, he is currently based at Leiden Film Kyoto Studio. He is also the head of the studio's office.

After making his directorial debut with "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya," he has been involved in many productions, mainly directing.
His first film as a director was "Her and Her Cat -Everything Flows-" by Makoto Shinkai.
After participating in the TV version of "AIR" as an artist, he storyboarded and directed the TV series "KANON" and "CLANNAD", and storyboarded and directed the OP of "Little Busters!
He is also well known among fans for having produced the video for "CLANNAD's" ED "DANGO DAIKAKUSAI".

(C)VISUAL ARTS/Key/KAGINADO