The upcoming Scenes From Awajima anime unveiled a new character visual featuring Ryoko Ueda and Kinue. Additionally, Ai Kayano will be joining the cast as Ryoko Ueda. The anime will premiere in April 2026, starring Niina Nakabayashi as Wakana Tabata and Yo Taichi as Kinue Takehara
Morio Asaka (Cardcaptor Sakura) directs the series at studio Madhouse (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Orb: On the Movements of the Earth). Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) writes the scripts, Kunihiko Hamada (My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999) designs the characters, and Takahiro Obata (Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary) composes the music.
Awajima Hyakkei anime is based on a manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It began serialization on Ohta Publishing’s PocoPoco website in June 2011, where it stayed until 2016. It was then moved to the Ohta Web Comic website in July of the same year. The final chapter was released in March 2024. The manga received a Manga Excellence Award during the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival held in 2015.
The said media festival described the coming-of-age manga as follows:
This omnibus adolescent drama is about a group of young girls who all attend a “girls-only musical school,” recounting the formidable years they shared, at times shifting between different characters’ viewpoints and time. Awajima Musical School Training Camp, dubbed the “boarding house,” is where young girls gather from all over Japan to perform on stage: TABATA Wakana aspires to be a musical star; housemaster TAKEHARA Kinue attends to carry on her best friend’s wishes; beautiful OKABE Emi is a scholarship student always at the center of attention; and IBUKI Katsurako who became a teacher at the school though originally from a family of actresses. The unique environment of the musical school is simultaneously a respite space for these aspiring girls and also a harsh battleground that pits young students against each other. It is a place where perseverance can lead to blossoming talents, but also to a cruel reality at times. The clarity of depiction and psychological portrayal allows the subtle inner workings of each character to come through.
Source: Awajima Hyakkei Official X
© Takako Shimura, Ohta Publishing / Awajima Hyakkei Production Committee
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