Eren the Southpaw Anime Casts Natsumi Fujiwara
Akari Kishi’s manager appears in episode 6 on Tuesday.
New Cast Announcement
The production team behind the television anime adaptation of Hidarikiki no Eren (Eren the Southpaw) revealed that Natsumi Fujiwara will voice Sachiyo Saitō, the manager of Akari Kishi. Saitō makes her debut in episode 6, which airs on Tuesday.
Series Overview
The anime premiered on TV Tokyo and its network affiliates on 7 April (midnight, effectively 8 April at 00:00). It streams internationally on Amazon Prime Video in Japan.
Main Cast
- Shōya Chiba as Koichi Asakura
- Yumi Uchiyama as Eren Yamagishi
- Yui Ishikawa as Sayuri Katō
- Akira Sekine as Akari Kishi
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Yūsuke Kamiya
- Yurina Amami as Yurina Mitsuhashi
- Kōji Yusa as Hajime Yanagi
- Tarusuke Shingaki as Shun Rukawa
- Asaki Yuikawa as Yūko Akane
- Kenichirō Matsuda as Ifū Sakuma
Story Synopsis (from the teaser)
Halfway through high school, everyone begins to seriously consider their future. Koichi Asakura, who dreams of attending art school to become a designer, is shocked when graffiti appears on a museum wall. The artist is Eren Yamagishi, a left‑handed student whose talent has been suppressed by a past incident.
Through drawing, the two recognize each other, and each embarks on their own creative path: Koichi toward design, Eren toward painting.
Key Staff
- Director: Toshimasa Suzuki (known for Fafner: Heaven and Earth, Lagrange ‑ The Flower of Rin‑ne, RWBY: Ice Queendom) – Production I.G & Signal.MD
- Series Script: Taku Kishimoto (works on BLUE LOCK, Haikyu!!, Moriarty the Patriot)
- Character Designer / Chief Animation Director: Takayuki Gotō (credited on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society, Parappa the Rapper)
- Chief Animation Directors / Episode Animation Directors: Yuka Fukuchi & Akane Tamai
- Opening Theme: ALI – “Funkin’ Beautiful feat. ZORN”
- Ending Theme: Ima Murasaki – “New Walk”
Additional Production Crew
- Color Key Artist – Mitsuko Sekimoto
- Art Director – Takeshi Satō
- Art Setting – Kazuhiro Obata
- Compositing Director of Photography – Shun Arimura
- Editor – Jun’ichi Masunaga
- Sound Director – Jin Aketagawa
- Music – PC Music Club
Manga Updates
The manga’s official Shonen Jump+ page launched a new serialization on 4 March, set in 2026 and centered on a competition at the Meguro Advertising Agency. The 25th collected volume was released on 1 May.
Background
Creator Kappi originally debuted the series on the Cakes web‑manga platform in March 2016. A remake illustrated by nifuni began on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ in October 2017, concluding in October 2022 with an extra chapter released in December. The manga’s final compiled volumes (23 & 24) were also published by Shueisha, and a live‑action adaptation aired in October 2019.
Sources: Official X/Twitter account for the anime, Comic Natalie.
