The staff for the television anime of Eku Takeshima's Whisper Me a Love Song (Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau) manga debuted its first full promotional video on Friday. The video previews the SSGIRLS band's "Humming Love" song, and it also announces a new director, more staff members, and the anime's delay from January to April 2024.
Akira Mano (Ghost Hunt) is replacing Xin Ya Cai (episode director for Arte, assistant director for The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt) as the anime's director. Yokohama Animation Lab is now crediting with producing the animation with Cloud Hearts. (Previously, Cloud Hearts alone was credited with the animation production with "animation production supervision" by Yokohama Animation Lab.)
The newly announced staff members are:
Sub-Character/Costume Design: Ryūnosuke Ōji
Prop Design: Ayumi Nagaki, Misae Kawakubo
Color Key Artist: Yuichi Furuichi
Art Design: Risa Iraha
Art Director: Sōshi Kuwashima
CG Director: Keiichi Eda
Compositing Director of Photography: Takahiro Kita
Offline Editing: Yumi Jingūji
Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go, Nozomi Nakatani
Music: Hiroshi Sasaki, Wataru Maeguchi
Artists: Kana Sasakura, Sui Mizukami (Yori Asanagi) (Shiho Izumi)
The anime stars Hana Shimano as Himari Kino and Asami Seto as Yori Asanagi.
Other cast members include:
Mikako Komatsu as Aki Mizuguchi
Konomi Kohara as Mari Tsutsui
Ai Kakuma as Kaori Tachibana
Yuna Nemoto as Shiho Izumi
Hiroki Uchida (Requiem of the Rose King, The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest) is overseeing the series scripts, and Minami Yoshida (Mysteria Friends) is designing the characters.