Even more details for the upcoming romance series “Love and Lies” has been revealed as the debut date of July 3 draws nearer. This time, the official website has released another trailer on Tuesday with the new details; but first, a little background.
“Love and Lies” is a series that first began as a manga series created by Musawo and published in DeNA’s MangaBox app in both English and Japanese in August 2014. Currently, Kodansha is releasing a fifth volume of the series in November.
The story of the series is set in a world where the concepts of lies and love are both forbidden. Relationships are chosen at the age of 16 by the government and many have grown content with this life. However, things are about to change with one Yukari Nejima, a 15-year-old who lives in a small corner of the country. While unlucky in life, he holds within him a deep fire of passion! Now how will this fare should he fall in love?
The staff that are working on the series comprise of the following people:
Director: Seiki Takuno
Studio: LIDEN FILMS
Ending Theme Song Performer: Roys
Assistant Director: Fumiaki Usui
Series Composition: Natsuko Takahashi
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Eriko Itō
Art Setting: Hiroshi Izumi, Yukie Inose
Art Director: Yukihiro Saitō
Color design: Emiko Onodera
Director of Photography: Hitoshi Tamura
Editing: Masato Yoshitake
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa
Music: Masaru Yokoyama, Nobuaki Nobusawa
In regards the newly released trailer, it not only gave a sneak peek into what the opening theme song, which “Kanashii Ureshii” (Sad and Happy) by the four-member rock band Frederic is like, but it also gave details on additional cast.
The additional cast revealed include, Kishou Taniyama, the voice of Crow in the music series “Show by Rock!” as Labour and Welfare’s Hajime Yajima of the Ministry of Health. With him is Tomoyo Kurosawa, who played Kumiko Oumae in the “Sound! Euphonium” series, as another member of the Ministry of Health’s Labour and Welfare unit Kagetsu Ichijō. Taking on the role of the narrator for the series is Eri Kitamura, the voice behind Ryouko Sawamura in “Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu.”
Prior to this, the revealed cast comprise of:
Ryota Ohsaka as Yukari Nejima
Kana Hanazawa as Misaki Takasaki
Yui Makino as Ririna Sanada
Shinnosuke Tachibana as Yūsuke Nisaka
Source: AnimeNewsNetwork