Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! Anime Reveals 3 New Cast Members – News
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The newly announced cast are (image above from left to right):
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The anime will premiere on October 5 on the AT-X channel at 11:00 p.m. JST (10:00 a.m. EDT), and will stream on various streaming services in Japan at 11:30 p.m. JST (10:30 a.m. EDT). The anime will then air on the Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, TV Aichi, and BS Asahi channels. Crunchyroll will stream the anime worldwide excluding Japan and mainland China under the title Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family!
The anime stars:
Yasuhiro Minami (episode director for several Gintama anime, Turn A Gundam) is directing the series at Studio Flad. Yukie Sugawara (Overlord seasons 1-4, Kino’s Journey – The Beautiful World) is overseeing the series scripts, and Mika Yamamoto (ClassicaLoid, Tiger & Bunny 2) is designing the characters. ZAQ performs the opening theme song “Dramatic Overlay,” and KAF performs the ending theme song “Arifuretetai” (I Want to Be Ordinary).
Additional staff members include:
The comedy manga centers on Alma, a super high-performance girl-type weapon, and the two genius scientists Enji Kamisato and Suzume Yobane, who created her.
The original manga ran on Kadokawa‘s Comic Newtype website and has three volumes. Kadokawa published the third volume in March 2024. A new manga, titled Alma-chan wa Kazoku ni Naritai Z, launched on Comic Newtype in July 2024 and is ongoing. The first volume shipped on April 25, and the second volume will ship on October 10.
Source: Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! anime’s X/Twitter account via Ota-Suke
