TV anime "Fruits Basket" announces Kazuyuki Okitsu and Takahiro Sakurai as additional cast members!

The TV anime "Fruits Basket," which has been attracting a great deal of attention since its full-length anime adaptation with a new staff and cast, has released additional cast members and character setting drawings.

Fruits Basket" (original story by Natsuki Takaya) is a very popular girls' manga serialized in "Hana to Yume" (Hakusensha) from 1998 to 2006. The manga has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and was adapted into an animated TV series by TV Tokyo in 2001, with 26 episodes broadcast, followed by a stage adaptation in 2009. In September 2015, a spin-off manga, "Fruits Basket Another," began serialization on the web, with a total of 340,000 copies of the manga in print (two volumes already published).

The story is about a high school girl, Honda Toru. She has been living alone in a tent since the death of her mother, the only family she had left, but the place where she pitched her tent was on the grounds of the Kusama family, which has a long history!　Toru, who was bought by Shigure Kusama for his housekeeping skills, ends up living with Yuki Kusama, the prince of the school, and Ri Kusama, who sees Yuki as an enemy. But what Toru doesn't know yet is that the "Kusama Family" has been in existence for hundreds of years. However, Toru does not yet know that the Kusama family has been bound by an abominable curse for hundreds of years. ......
The show has received overwhelming support from a wide range of audiences, especially women, for its one-of-a-kind worldview with the thrill of a shoujo manga and deep, unexpected content that is hard to escape once you get into it.

It is scheduled to be broadcast from April 2019 on TV Tokyo and other stations.
⇒ That masterpiece is coming back! The full-length anime adaptation of "Fruits Basket" will be supervised by Natsuki Takaya, the original author of "Fruits Basket! A new series with a new cast and new staff!

Kazuyuki Okitsu will play the role of Hatori Kusama, Shigure's classmate and the Kusama family doctor, and Takahiro Sakurai will play Ayame Kusama, Yuki's older brother who is also a classmate of both of them. In addition, a character drawing was also released. The official website has also posted the facial expressions of each character, so be sure to check it out.

The characters of the Kusama family are gradually being revealed, and now the trio of Shi Wu's classmates are finally all here.

Additional cast members and character sketches

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■TV anime "Fruits Basket
Broadcasting will begin in April 2019 on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, etc.!

＜INTRODUCTION>
A high school student, Tohru Honda, has been living alone in a tent since the death of his mother, the only family he had left.
However, the place where he pitched his tent was on the grounds of the "Kusama Family", a family with a long history!
Shigure Kusama buys Toru's housekeeping skills, and Toru moves in with Yuki Kusama, the prince of the school, and Ri Kusama, who sees Yuki as an enemy.
But what Toru doesn't know yet is that the "Kusama Family" has been in existence for hundreds of years.
However, Toru does not yet know that the Kusama family has been bound by an abominable curse for hundreds of years. ......

A new series with a completely new cast and crew!

<Staff>
Original Story and Supervisor：Natsuki Takaya "Fruits Basket" (Hakusensha, Hana to Yume COMICS)
Director：Yoshihide Ibata
Series Composition : Taku Kishimoto
Character Design : Yu Shindo
Animation Production : TMS Entertainment

＜Cast
Toru Honda : Mainaka Ishimi
Yuki Kusama: Nobunaga Shimazaki
Kusama Olei: Uchida Yuma
Kusama Shigure: Nakamura Yuichi

Kusama Rakura: KUGIMIYA Rie
Kusama Beniha: Ban Megumi
Kusama ? Haru ： Shin Furukawa
Kusama Hatori : Kazuyuki Okitsu
Kusama Ayame : Takahiro Sakurai

Arisa Uoya : Atsumi Tanezaki
Hanashima Saki : Satomi Sato
and others

(C) Natsuki Takaya, Hakusensha/ Fruits Basket Production Committee