Boarding School Juliet Anime Reveals New Cast Member, Visual

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Yōsuke Kaneda's school romantic comedy manga series Kishuku Gakkō no Juliet (Boarding School Juliet) revealed on Friday that Ayane Sakura will play the character Hasuki Komai. Hasuki is a first year in the "Black Doggy House" dormitory, and is the childhood friend of Romio. The anime's official website also features a "date voice" audio track featuring the character.



The series will premiere in October.

The anime stars:

• Yuuki Ono as Romio Inuzuka
  
• Ai Kayano as Juliet Percia

Seiki Takuno (Love and Lies, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Poco's Udon World) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Fumiaki Usui (assistant director for Love and Lies, Sekkō Boys, Poco's Udon World) is the assistant director, and Takao Yoshioka (WATAMOTE, Wagnaria!!2, Ikki Tousen) is both overseeing and writing the scripts. Yūki Morimoto (Miss Monochrome, Miss Monochrome - The Animation- 2) is designing the characters for animation, and Masaru Yokoyama (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Kabukibu!, Your Lie in April) is composing the music.

Other staff members include:

• Art Setting: Tomoyuki Aoki, Yukie Inose
• Art Director: Yukihiro Saitō
• Color Design: Hironori Nochi
• Director of Photography: Hitoshi Tamura
• Editing: Masato Yoshitake
• Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
• Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa

The story follows two students from two nations who attend the Dahlia Academy boarding school, and a forbidden love that blooms between them. In the Tōwa Nation's dormitory stands Romio Inuzuka, and in the Principality of West dormitory stands his lover and eternal enemy, Juliet Percia. Everything begins with the confession that Romeo stakes his life on.

Kodansha Comics began releasing the manga digitally in English on April 10 as one of its digital first titles.

Kaneda launched the manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2015, and the manga moved to Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2017. Kodansha published the seventh volume on March 16, and will publish the eighth volume on June 15. The series received a nomination in the Shōnen category of the 41st Annual Kodansha Manga Awards last year.