{"id":105859,"date":"2025-08-29T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/105859\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:12:07","slug":"rikuya-yasuda-stars-in-tune-into-the-midnight-heart-anime-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/105859\/","title":{"rendered":"Rikuya Yasuda Stars in Tune into the Midnight Heart Anime &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website for the television <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-03-14\/masakuni-igarashi-tune-in-to-the-midnight-heart-manga-gets-tv-anime-in-2026\/.222375\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anime<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=176214\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Masakuni Igarashi<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=35149\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tune In to the Midnight Heart<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=29962\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayonaka Heart Tune<\/a>) manga announced on Friday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=167211\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rikuya Yasuda<\/a> will star in the anime as protagonist Arisu Yamabuki. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Character visual for protagonist Arisu Yamabuki\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max600x600\/cms\/news.8\/228237\/arisu.jfif.jpeg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anime_mayochu\/status\/1961383578488410302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tune into the Midnight Heart anime&#8217;s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u4e94\u5341\u5d50\u6b63\u90a6\u30fb\u8b1b\u8ac7\u793e\uff0f\u300c\u771f\u591c\u4e2d\u30cf\u30fc\u30c8\u30c1\u30e5\u30fc\u30f3\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p>The website streamed a video featuring Yasuda, Igarashi, and anime staff members climbing Mt. Fuji with the goal of seeing the summit at sunrise to pray for the success of the anime.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"432\" alt=\"Tune In to the Midnight Heart anime visual\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.8\/222375\/tuen-in-tothe-midnight-heart-visual.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anime_mayochu\/status\/1900502920313086112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tune In to the Midnight Heart anime&#8217;s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u4e94\u5341\u5d50\u6b63\u90a6\u30fb\u8b1b\u8ac7\u793e\uff0f\u300c\u771f\u591c\u4e2d\u30cf\u30fc\u30c8\u30c1\u30e5\u30fc\u30f3\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p>The anime will premiere in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The anime stars:\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=76358\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Masayuki Takahashi<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=25046\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Butareba: The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig<\/a>) is directing the anime at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=23004\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gekk\u014d<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=111723\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yukie Sugawara<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=20397\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Overlord<\/a>) is in charge of series scripts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=41022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomoyuki Shitaya<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=18112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=11197\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bakuman.<\/a>) is designing the characters. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=88\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kodansha<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=24071\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K MANGA<\/a> service is publishing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story:\n<\/p>\n<p>When Arisu Yamabuki was all alone in bed at night, he was able to find solace in the voice of a radio host who went by \u201cApollo.\u201d However, one day, she simply stopped broadcasting without any explanation. Years then passed, and Arisu is now a second-year high-schooler. He makes it his mission to search for Apollo, as there is something he wants to tell her. He doesn&#8217;t know what she looks like, or even what her real name is, but he manages to get some leads on her in his school&#8217;s broadcasting club. That&#8217;s where he meets four girls who all dream to get a job where they can make full use of their voices! Just who is Apollo, and how will those four&#8217;s dreams pan out?<\/p>\n<p>Igarashi (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=21646\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senry\u016b Girl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=33370\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detectives These Days Are Crazy!<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-09-18\/senryu-girl-masakuni-igarashi-launches-new-manga\/.202478\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> the manga in Kodansha&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=6457\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weekly Sh\u014dnen Magazine<\/a> in September 2023. The ninth volume shipped on June 17. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=15577\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kodansha USA Publishing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2024-07-26\/kodansha-usa-reveals-new-sailor-moon-box-set-1-digital-5-print-licenses\/.213597\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">licensed<\/a> the manga and will release the third volume on September 2.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Tune In to the Midnight Heart anime&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mayochu-anime.com\/news\/index00060000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/638171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The website for the television anime of Masakuni Igarashi&#8216;s Tune In to the Midnight Heart (Mayonaka Heart Tune)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-105859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}