{"id":647173,"date":"2026-10-15T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/647173\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:08:12","slug":"matsurika-kanriden-tv-anime-casts-takuya-sato-hiyori-kono-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/647173\/","title":{"rendered":"Matsurika Kanriden TV Anime Casts Takuya Sat\u014d, Hiyori K\u014dno &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Series debuts in January 2027<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=15420\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kadokawa<\/a> revealed more cast members on Thursday for the television <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-09-30\/matsurika-kanriden-fantasy-romance-light-novels-get-tv-anime\/.229495\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anime<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=237551\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rinne Ishida<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=32903\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Izumi<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=37883\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matsurika Kanriden<\/a> (The Tale of the Scholar-Official Matsurika) light novel series.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/akatsuki-ro-rian.jpg\" width=\"405\" height=\"600\" alt=\"akatsuki-ro-rian\" border=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Image courtesy of Kadokawa<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u77f3\u7530\u30ea\u30f3\u30cd\u30fbIzumi\/KADOKAWA\/\u300c\u8309\u8389\u82b1\u5b98\u540f\u4f1d\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a <\/p>\n<p>The new cast includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=70856\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Takuya Sat\u014d<\/a> as Akatsuki (pictured right in image above) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=163448\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hiyori K\u014dno<\/a> as Lian Lo (left above). Akatsuki is the emperor of the country of Sekis\u014d and Lian is his empress.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/matsurikakanriden-kv1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" alt=\"matsurikakanriden-kv1\" border=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Image courtesy of Kadokawa<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u77f3\u7530\u30ea\u30f3\u30cd\u30fbIzumi\/KADOKAWA\/\u300c\u8309\u8389\u82b1\u5b98\u540f\u4f1d\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a <\/p>\n<p>The anime will debut in January 2027 and will air on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=13028\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo MX<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=10442\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MBS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=15102\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV Aichi<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=10651\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BS11<\/a> in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The anime stars:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Takeshi Mori<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=269\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vandread<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=156\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gunsmith Cats<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=293\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Otaku no Video<\/a>) is the supervising director for the anime, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=32796\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Y\u016bichi Nakazawa<\/a> is directing the anime at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=18114\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maho Film<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=75184\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T\u014dko Machida<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=7222\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucky Star<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=12436\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The IDOLM@STER<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=24601\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Master Has No Tail<\/a>) is in charge of series composition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=195716\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manami Inose<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=29882\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Miburo<\/a>) is designing the characters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=139873\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Takur\u014d Iga<\/a> is composing the music.<\/p>\n<p>Additional staff members include:<\/p>\n<p data-pasted=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=138102\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KANA-BOON<\/a> performs the opening theme song &#8220;Hana Hanashi&#8221; (Flower Talk).<\/p>\n<p>The fantasy romance novels, inspired by Chinese history, center on the titular Matsurika, a court lady serving at the emperor&#8217;s inner palace, who is known for her good memory. One day, she receives a request to serve as a practice partner for the marriage meeting for the son a certain noble house. But when she arrives to meet this noble scion, it turns out to be none other than Emperor Hakuy\u014d himself. The emperor falls in love with her at first sight, but tells her to come to him once she passes the state&#8217;s scholar-official civil service exam.<\/p>\n<p>Ishida published the first light novel in the series in July 2017, with illustrations by Izumi. The 19th and most recent volume shipped on October 15.<\/p>\n<p>Takase <a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/294162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">launched<\/a> the manga adaptation of the novels in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=767\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Akita Shoten<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=4225\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monthly Princess<\/a> magazine in August 2018. Akita Shoten published the manga&#8217;s 12th volume in October 2025. The manga&#8217;s first part also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-10-07\/matsurika-kanriden-manga-ends-1st-part\/.229691\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended<\/a>\u00a0in October 2025, and the second part <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-05-06\/matsurika-kanriden-manga-starts-2nd-part\/.237115\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">started<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n<p>The series has over 2.68 million copies in circulation (including digital editions) as of October 15.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press release<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Series debuts in January 2027 Kadokawa revealed more cast members on Thursday for the television anime of Rinne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-647173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}