Ayana Taketatsu, Ayane Sakura, Akari Kitō, Yumi Hara join cast

The official website for the television anime of Naru Narumi's Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san (Ms. Koizumi loves ramen noodles) manga revealed the second key visual, main cast, and additional staff for the anime on Wednesday.

The cast includes:

Ayana Taketatsu as Koizumi

Ayane Sakura as Yū Ōsawa

Akari Kitō as Misa Nakamura

Yumi Hara as Jun Takahashi

The anime will have a stage event at the Machi Asobi Vol. 19 event in Tokushima on October 8. Kitō will appear at the event and introduce famous Tokushima ramen restaurants.

Kenji Seto (both seasons of The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water) is directing the series at Studio Gokumi (Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn, Kinmoza! Kiniro + Mosaic) and AXsiZ (Wagamama High Spec, Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn). Tatsuya Takahashi (Eromanga Sensei, And you thought there is never a girl online?) is handling the series composition, and Takuya Tani (Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn) is designing the characters.

Additional staff includes:

Scenario: Tatsuya Takahashi, Tatsuhiko Urahata, Akiko Sekine Chief Animation Directors: Takuya Tani, Masaaki Sakurai Art Director: Risa Wakabayashi (Atelier PLATZ) Color Design: Aiko Matsuyama Director of Photography: Yasuhiro Asaki Editing: Akinori Mishima Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama Sound Production: Groove Music: Takashi Tanaka, Shinichi Hosono Sound Producer: Masao Fukuda Music Production: Flying Dog Casting Producer: Makoto Tanimura Video Editing: Imagica

The gourmet comedy follows the daily life of Koizumi, a high school girl who looks like a cool beauty at first glance, but actually has an unexpected side of her that loves ramen.

Narumi launched the manga in Takeshobo's Manga Life Storia magazine in 2013, and Takeshobo published the fifth compiled book volume on March 30. The manga already inspired a live-action television series in 2015, followed by a New Year's Special in January 2016 and a New Year's Eve Special in December 2016.

Source: Comic Natalie