We’ve had some good bits of information come up over the last couple of months for the spring 2014 series Soul Eater Not!, which adapts the spinoff manga of the same name. While we’ve gotten new character casting information previously, which you can see below, confirmations have come in that a lot of the cast from the original Soul Eater series will be returning to reprise their roles. In addition to those, which you can see just below, Takahiro Sakurai has signed on to play Akane in the series while Seiichiro Yamashita is coming on to play Flay. Additionally, Mikako Komatsu will be taking on Eternal Feather and Kotori Koiwai as Kana Altair.
The production, based on the manga of the same name by Atsushi Ohkubo, has set Masakazu Hashimoto to direct it at Bones. Hashimoto was most recently seen directing Tari Tari but has been involved in a few other things over the year as an episode director. He’s done a bit more as a full on movie director working on some Crayon Shin-chanand Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva. Check out the previously announced breakdown below.
Cast:
Haruka Chisuga as Tsugumi Harudori
Aoi Yūki as Meme Tatane
Saori Hayami as Anya Hepburn
Takahiro Sakurai as Akane
Seiichiro Yamashita as Flay
Mikako Komatsu as Eternal Feather
Kotori Koiwai as Kana Altair
Returning Soul Eater Cast:
Chiaki Omigawa as Maka Albarn
Kouki Uchiyama as Soul Eater Evans
Yumiko Kobayashi as Black★Star
Kaori Nazuka as Tsubaki Nakatsukasa
Mamoru Miyano as Death the Kid
Akeno Watanabe as Elizabeth “Liz” Thompson
Narumi Takahira as Patricia “Patty” Thompson
Chiwa Saito as Kim Diehl
Kanae Oki as Jacqueline O. Lantern Dupré
Masafumi Kimura as Sid Barett
Yuya Uchida as Franken Stein
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Ox Ford
Staff:
Director/Series Composition: Masakazu Hashimoto
Character Designer/Chief Animation Director: Satoshi Koike
Director of Photography: Toru Fukushi
Music: Asami Tachibana, Yuuki Hayashi
Color Key: Kazuko Kikuchi
Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
Soul Eater had its anime release done here by FUNimation while Yen Press has been releasing both Soul Eater and Soul Eater Not!.
Plot concept: Ding-dong! DEAD-dong! Class is about to begin, and you don’t want to be late on your first day of school! Join Tsugumi Harudori in the NOT class at Death Weapon Meister Academy, a school dedicated to training transforming Weapons like Tsugumi and the Meisters who will wield them. Many NOT (Normally Overcome Target) students aspire to join the elite EAT (Especially Advantaged Talent) class, but it may take Tsugumi some time to find her confidence – and a partner – at this crazy school!
Featuring an all-new cast as well as a few familiar faces, Soul Eater NOT! offers an exciting peek at the lives of incoming DWMA students!
[Source: ANN]