On December 30, 2014, voice actress Masumi Asano (Oda Nobuna no Yabou‘s Hisahide Matsunaga, Ikkitousen‘s Hofuku Sonsaku) announced on her blog and her official Twitter account that her and Kenjirou Hata’s (Hayate no Gotoku!) 4-koma doujinshi manga, Sore ga Seiyuu!, will have an anime adaptation. Today, the anime’s teaser website opened with details for the upcoming anime. Sore ga Seiyuu! will be under Studio Gonzo’s production (NHK ni Youkoso!, Hellsing) and will air in Summer 2015. Evil Line Records (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Crystal) will be in-charge for the anime’s music.
The website revealed the main characters for the series named as Rin Kohana, Futaba Ichinose and Ichigo Moesaki.
The meta tags of the site’s source had listed their voice actresses as keywords. However, it was removed afterwards.
- Marika Kouno (Nami Jougasaki from Rail Wars!) as Rin Kohana
- Rie Takahashi (Another‘s Keiko Numata) as Futaba Ichinose
- Yuki Nagaku (Debut role) as Ichigo Moesaki
Marika Kouno quoted a tweet with a note that it will be her first regular role in an anime series. She removed the post momentarily.
Kenjiro tweeted the character designer in-charge for the upcoming anime which will be Masakatsu Sasaki (A-Channel, Saki):
アニメ制作はGONZO、キャラデザは佐々木政勝さんが描いてくれてます！凄く可愛いです！お楽しみに！→ http://t.co/D4kt9Omp5q
— 畑健二郎@それが声優！ＴＶアニメ化 (@hatakenjiro) January 14, 2015
Anime Visual:
The first volume of the doujin was distributed in Winter 2011’s Comiket 81. Since then, the duo continued distributing new issues at Comiket events. The doujin has many different kinds of volume cover but it only has two compiled volumes. Also, the size of Sore ga Seiyuu!‘s volumes are much larger than the size of a regular volume of Hayate no Gotoku!.
Original Volumes:
- First Volume: Sold at Winter Comiket 81 on December 31, 2011 with 36 pages.
- Second Volume: Sold at Summer Comiket 82 on August 12, 2012 with 44 pages.
Soushuuhen Volumes:
- First Volume: Sold at Summer Comiket 86 on August 17, 2014.
- Second Volume: Sold at Winter Comiket 87 on December 30, 2014. (This volume includes a collection of 4-komas from Sore ga Seiyuu! EX2, Sore ga Seiyuu! Futaba and Ha○te-kun and Sore ga Seiyuu! Rin-chan and Kamiya-san)
WEB Collection:
- First Volume: Sold at COMIC1☆8 on April 29, 2014 with 56 pages.
Special Volumes:
- Sore ga Seiyuu! EX: Sold at Winter Comiket 83 on December 31, 2012 with 40 pages.
- Sore ga Seiyuu! EX2: Sold at Summer Comiket 84 on August 11, 2013.
- Sore ga Seiyuu! Futaba and Ha○te-kun: Sold at Winter Comiket 85 on December 31, 2013. (This volume’s name is a reference to Hayate Ayasaki, the main character of Hayate no Gotoku!.)
- Sore ga Seiyuu! Rin-chan and Kamiya-san: Sold at Summer Comiket 86 on August 17, 2014. (This volume’s name is a reference to the voice actor Hiroshi Kamiya.)
- Sore ga Seiyuu! 2014 WINTER Sweat and Lives and Hocchan and: Sold at Winter Comiket 87 on December 30. 2014.
Synopsis of Sore ga Seiyuu! from Haruhichan:
The series centers on Futaba Ichinose, Ichigo Moesaki, and Rin Kohana, three rookie voice actresses. The manga features small but humorous observations of the voice actor industry.
Source – Hachima Kikou, Natalie Comic, Hayate no Gotoku! Wikia
