Minami-ke: Korekara Brings Back Its Cast for April 2027 Premiere
LIDEN FILMS will animate the fifth TV installment of Coharu Sakuraba's comedy about three sisters.
Minami-ke: Korekara premieres in April 2027. A new teaser reveals the returning cast and production staff for the franchise's first TV anime since 2013.
Minami-ke: Korekara (Minami-ke: Going Forward) will premiere in April 2027. Sunday's “Minami-ke Special Event 2026” unveiled a teaser video announcing the returning cast and staff, alongside a teaser visual and character visuals for the new TV sequel based on Coharu Sakuraba's manga.
The returning cast includes:
- Rina Satō as Haruka Minami
- Marina Inoue as Kana Minami
- Minori Chihara as Chiaki Minami
- Nana Mizuki as Tōma Minami
- Rika Morinaga as Makoto/Mako-chan
- Tetsuya Kakihara as Fujioka
- Daisuke Ono as Hosaka
- Aki Toyosaki as Yoshino
- Eri Kitamura as Yuka Uchida
- Momoko Ohara as Shūichi
- Saori Gotō as Keiko
- Ao Takahashi as Riko
- Yoshino Nanjō as Miyuki
- Tatsuya Hayama as Akira Minami
- Reiko Takagi as Maki
- Ryōko Ono as Atsuko
- Ayaka Saitō as Hitomi
- Saeko Chiba as Hayami
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Natsuki Minami
- Shinji Kawada as Haruo Minami
- Shintarō Asanuma as Takeru
The production staff includes:
- Director: Jun'ichi Kitamura (Catch Me at the Ballpark!, Fluffy Paradise; episode director for Cells at Work! Code Black), working at LIDEN FILMS
- Series scripts: Takamitsu Kōno, returning from previous Minami-ke series
- Character design: Nobuhiro Andō (episode animation director for Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring, Hell's Paradise, and My Deer Friend Nokotan)
- Art director: Masaru Satō (Case Closed: The Bride of Halloween and Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire films, Komi Can't Communicate)
- Art director: Midori Kikuchi (assistant art director for Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster!)
- Color key artist: Saki Kurata
- Compositing director of photography: Yūki Tsuchimoto
- Sound director: Yasunori Ebina, returning
- Sound effects: Naoto Yamaya, returning
- Music: Yasuhiro Misawa, returning
The “Mixa Animation Diary 'Minami-ke' 20th Anniversary Tanabata Festival” announced the new anime in July 2024. Another event revealed the “Korekara” subtitle in November 2025. This will be the franchise's fifth TV anime and its first new TV series in at least 14 years, following the 2013 installment.
Sakuraba began the ongoing manga in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine in 2004. Kodansha released its 29th compiled volume on Friday.
Minami-ke previously inspired four TV anime in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2013, plus three OVAs in 2009, 2012, and 2013.
The story follows Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki, the three sisters of the Minami household. Their lives are ordinary, but they have only one another to rely on.
Sakuraba's Kyo no Gononi manga also received an OVA in 2006, a TV anime in 2008, and a separate OVA in 2009.
Sources: Press release via ANN
