{"id":156074,"date":"2025-11-27T09:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156074\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:08:14","slug":"tamons-b-side-anime-casts-runa-sasaki-ayaka-nanase-as-utages-younger-siblings-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156074\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamon’s B-Side Anime Casts Runa Sasaki, Ayaka Nanase as Utage’s Younger Siblings – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official website for the anime<\/a> of Yuki Shiwasu<\/a>‘s Tamon\u2019s B-Side (Tamon-kun Ima Docchi!?<\/a>) manga announced two new cast members for the anime on Thursday:<\/p>\n

Runa Sasaki<\/a> as Homare Kinoshita, Utage’s younger sister<\/p>\n

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Ayaka Nanase<\/a> as Yamato Kinoshita, Utage’s younger brother<\/p>\n

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The anime stars:<\/p>\n

The anime will premiere<\/a> in January 2026.Chika Nagaoka<\/a> (Uta no Prince Sama Maji Love Kingdom<\/a>, Utano\u2606Princesama Maji LOVE ST\u2606RISH Tours<\/a>) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff<\/a>. Chiaki Nagai<\/a> (Utano\u2606Princesama Legend Star<\/a>, The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls<\/a>) is both writing and overseeing the series scripts. Y\u014dko It\u014d<\/a> (Delico’s Nursery<\/a>, Love Stage!!<\/a>, Skate-Leading Stars<\/a>) is the character designer and chief animation director. Shochiku<\/a>, King Records<\/a>, and Hakusensha<\/a> are producing the anime.<\/p>\n

The other staff members include:<\/p>\n

Chief Animation Directors: Mitsuru Chiba<\/a>, Airi Tsuyuki<\/a>Prop Designer: Moe Fujii<\/a>Music: Takashi \u014cmama<\/a>, Natsumi Tabuchi<\/a>Art Director: Li Yu<\/a>CG Director: Ayaka Momma<\/a>2D Design: Makoto Yoshigaki<\/a>Compositing Director of Photography: Soyaka Aoyagi<\/a>Color Key Artist: Miho Kimura<\/a>Editing: Michi Takigawa<\/a>Sound Director: Fumihiko \u014ctera<\/a>Sound Effects: Sachiko Nishi<\/a>Sound Production: Rie Tanaka<\/a><\/p>\n

Viz Media<\/a> licensed<\/a> the manga, and it describes the story:<\/p>\n

Tamon is an insecure mess in real life, and what’s worse, he’s threatening to quit! Utage refuses to let anyone stand in Tamon’s way\u2014least of all himself. What’s a fangirl to do but roll up her sleeves and support her favorite singer with everything she’s got?<\/p>\n

Shiwasu (Takane & Hana) debuted<\/a> the manga in Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume<\/a> magazine in October 2021. The series is based on Shiwasu’s earlier one-shot manga of the same name.<\/p>\n

The manga was nominated<\/a> for Best Sh\u014djo<\/a> Manga in Kodansha<\/a>‘s 47th annual Manga Awards in 2023. The manga ranked<\/a> at #9 on the top 20 on its list of manga for female readers in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha<\/a>‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.<\/p>\n

Sources: Tamon\u2019s B-Side anime’s\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0and X\/Twitter\u00a0account<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0Ota-Suke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official website for the anime of Yuki Shiwasu‘s Tamon\u2019s B-Side (Tamon-kun Ima Docchi!?) manga announced two new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-156074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}