Raccoon Dog and Fox TV Anime Reveals Voice Cast in New Promo
The series premieres October 4 within TV Tokyo and its affiliates’ Sunday morning “Animori” program.
Frontier Works released a promotional video with the first footage and voice cast for Raccoon Dog and Fox. The TV anime marks the franchise’s 10th anniversary.
Frontier Works released a promotional video on Friday for the television anime adaptation of Atamoto’s Raccoon Dog and Fox (Tanuki to Kitsune) manga. It offers the first anime footage and announces the voice cast.
The cast includes:
- Misaki Kuno as Tanuki
- Nao Tōyama as Kitsune
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Ōkami
- Maria Naganawa as Usagi and Narrator
- Takuma Nagatsuka as Kuma and Usagi
The anime premieres October 4 as part of “Animori,” which airs Sundays at 7:00 a.m. on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. The adaptation celebrates the franchise’s 10th anniversary.
Tommy Hino (Kumarba (TV 3), Crane Game Girls) directs at Akatsuki Media Studio. Rika Kihara (Sylvanian Families Freya no Piece of Secret) writes the scripts.
The manga follows the everyday lives of a somewhat clueless raccoon dog and a mischievous fox who enjoys teasing him. The close friends share a home on a mountain, with a wolf, a bear, a rabbit, and birds among their other friends.
The franchise includes 10 manga volumes and three picture book volumes, with 1.35 million book copies in circulation overall. Volume two of the new manga series Tanuki to Kitsune Yurutto ships October 15.
An earlier series of web anime shorts launched in February 2018. The franchise has also spawned a wide range of merchandise and stamps for the LINE messaging and social media app.
Atamoto started serializing the manga on X, formerly Twitter. Frontier Works publishes the print edition.
Sources: Frontier Works ' website via ANN
