Get ready to be served by a group of handsome gentlemen as the official schedule for the upcoming anime “Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori’s” release has been confirmed.
“Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori” is a manga series that was created by Yuu Shimizu and released in October 2013 with Shinchosha’s seinen manga magazine Go Go Bunch as its publisher. Currently the series has a total of seven volumes. It was in October 2017 that the anime adaptation was first announced in the 19th issue of Shinchosha’s Go Go Bunch magazine.
Directing the upcoming series is Tomomi Kamiya, who prior to this majorly worked as a key animator and animation director. “Noragami’s” series composer Deko Akao will be taking charge of the writing of the series. Working as the advisor and sound director for the production is Takuya Satou, a director, storyboard artist, and writer who worked on multiple series including “Haikyuu!!” and “Kino’s Journey.”
Kei Anjiki, known to have worked on the “(The) Dragon Dentists” specials as a key animator will be working as a character designer for the series. With them as the artist behind the cooking designs is Noriko Itou, the animation director behind the popular sports series, “Yuri!!! On Ice.” As for the art director of the series, that role goes to Hiromasa Ogura who previously worked on the background art of Studio Ghibli film “The Cat Returns.”
Additional staff for the production include:
Sub Character Design: Haruna Gōzu
Color Design: Nanae Shinaji
Director of Photography: Takeshi Kuchiba
Editing: Daisuke Hiraki
Music: Takeshi Watanabe
The anime is set to premiere in April and the newly revealed schedule is as follows:
AT-X: every Tuesday during the 24:30 time slot beginning on April 10, 2018.
Tokyo MX: every Wednesday during the 22:00 time slot beginning on April 11, 2018.
KBS Kyoto: every Wednesday during the 23:00 time slot beginning on April 11, 2018.
It is to be noted that some Japanese TV schedules count early-morning programming as late-night programming of the previous day.
The story of the series takes place in a popular Japanese-style cafe named “Rokuhoudou.” here there works four specialists, tea specialist and cafe owner Sui, latte artist Gure, sweets specialist Tsubaki and cooking specialist Tokitaka. While the fours specialists perform their duties as servers, they also sometimes help in solving problems that are troubling their customer’s lives.
Playing the main roles of the series are the following:
Junichi Suwabe as Sui/Keisui Higashigo
Yūichi Nakamura as Tokitaka/Tokitaka Nagae
Daisuke Ono as Gure/Gregorio Valentino
Daiki Yamashita as Tsubaki/Tsubaki Nakao
As for additional cast who are yet to have confirmed full names, they include:
Tomoaki Maeno as Yakyō Higashigo
Kousuke Toriumi as Eisuke Kadosaki
Kōhei Amasaki as Kinako
Source: Crunchyroll News