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Gacha Girls Corps Casts ≠ME’s Momo Sakurai as Mofutto

A promotional video celebrates Rabbit with Upright Ears Day and previews the ending theme’s instrumental version.

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≠ME idol Momo Sakurai will voice the rabbit Mofutto and perform the ending theme in Gacha Girls Corps. The television anime premieres in January 2027.

≠ME’s Momo Sakurai will voice rabbit character Mofutto in Gacha Girls Corps (Gacha o Mawashite Nakama o Fuyasu: Saikyō no Bishōjo Gundan o Tsukuriagero). She also sings the anime’s ending theme as Mofutto.

Mofutto cast announcement and ending theme preview

The television anime’s staff released the promotional video on Wednesday to celebrate 11/11, “Tachi Mimi Usagi no Hi” (Rabbit with Upright Ears Day).

The video announces Sakurai’s casting and previews the instrumental version of “Mofu-kyun Heart♡” (Mofutto ver), the ending theme credited to Mofutto, voiced by Sakurai.

The anime adapts author Chinkururi and illustrator Yasutaka Isegawa’s light novel series. It will debut in January 2027.

The cast includes:

  • Momo Sakurai as Mofutto
  • Daisuke Sakaguchi as Heihachi Okura
  • Miyu Tomita as Norl Fanya (name romanization not confirmed)
  • Iori Noguchi as Estel
  • Ai Kayano as Shisuha Alvy
  • Rie Kugimiya as Luna Varedas

The staff includes:

  • Chief Director: Masahiro Takada
  • Director: Takashi Asami
  • Series Script Supervisor: Deko Akao
  • Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Miori Suzuki
  • Monster Design: Tomoyuki Abe
  • Prop Design Support: Shiori Kōno
  • Art Director: Kenta Tsuboi
  • Background Art: Minami Takizawa (name romanization not confirmed)
  • Color Key Artist: Akiko Inoue
  • Compositing Director of Photography: Kōsuke Tanaka
  • Offline Editing: Masaki Utsunomiya
  • Offline Editing Assistant: Asuka Kojima
  • Sound Director: Nobuyuki Abe
  • Sound Production: On-Lead
  • Music: Hiroaki Tsutsumi, George King
  • Music Producer: Takahiro Ikeda
  • Background Music Production Collaboration: MIRACLE BUS
  • Music Production: Starry Cube
  • Animation Production: Zero-G× Saber Works
  • Producer: Ryō Aizawa (Starry Cube)
  • Executive Producer: Kōichirō Natsume

Kaiten Books describes a story featuring Norl and Heihachi, a mobile game addict who spends heavily on gacha. An item he pulls transports him into another world.

When monsters attack, Heihachi rolls gacha and discovers he can summon units from his phone. He sets out to collect powerful, ultra-rare girls.

Chinkururi launched the story on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in January 2016, and it remains ongoing. Micro Magazine published the ninth novel volume in August 2020.

Syū Haruno launched the manga adaptation on Comic Ride in 2018. Its 15th compiled book volume will ship on December 24.

Kaiten Books first licensed Haruno’s manga in 2020 and released its seventh volume digitally in September 2024. Omoi also releases the manga digitally in English.

Sources: Gacha Girls Corps anime's website via ANN

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