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Hi Score Girl: Anime reveals her main cast

ALyrics May 24, 2018


The July issue of Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan has revealed three new voices for the animated adaptation of Rensuke Oshikiri's Hi Score Girl manga.

 The new voices revealed are:

  • Kohei Amasaki as Haruo Yaguchi
  • Sayumi Suzushiro as Akira Ono
  • Yuki Hirose as Koharu Hidaka


 Yoshiki Yamanaka (Kill Me Baby, Little Busters!) Will be the director of the anime under J.C. Staff. Tatsuhiko Urahata (Saki, Tsuredure Children) will be in charge of the series composition, while Michiru Kuwabata (Danchi Tomoo, Penguin no Mondai) will be responsible for the character designs. Yoko Shimamura (Napping Princess, Final Fantasy XV) will compose music, with Yuji Matsukura being the animation supervisor. The CGI will be Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment.

 Other team members will be:

 CG address: Yusuke Suzuki
CGI Production: Tomoyasu Sakakibara
Character Modeling Address: Eri Sekido (SMDE)
Art Direction: Akira Suzuki
Color: Miho Kimura
Photography direction: Shingo Fukuyo
Edition: Kentarou Tsubone (REAL-T)
Sound Direction: Jin Aketagawa
Sound Production: Magic Capsule
Unification of animation production: Yuji Matsukura

 The series has its premiere dated for next July.

The story follows Yaguchi Haruo, a boy of sixth in 1991 and living for video games. He is not popular at school, he is not handsome, he is not a diva and he is not even nice. The only thing that is good, are video games. One day, in a recreational hall, is Oono Akira, classmate and who is beautiful, smart, list and popular. Both will play Street Fighter II, only for Haruo to lose 30 consecutive games against the girl, which turns out to be invincible in any game.
Akira will begin to follow Haruo in all its visits to the recreational ones to beat him in all existing game, something that the boy will annoy a lot in the beginning ... but that will end up making for a strange friendship.

 The manga began to be published in the year 2010, although in August of 2014 it had to pause by legal problems with SNK Playmore, resuming its publication in July of 2016. After some modifications, the sleeve returned to the market like Hi Score Girl CONTINUE, having been thrown his eighth tome last March.

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