With You and the Rain Anime Reveals 6 New Cast

This year's 16th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine revealed six new cast members for the television anime of Kō Nikaido's With You and the Rain (Ame to Kimi to) manga on Monday.

The newly announced cast are:

• Anna Mugiho as You (Kimi)

• Yōji Ueda as Tatsuo

• Mie Sonozaki as Michiko

• Kikunosuke Toya as Teru

• Yumiri Hanamori as Wako

• Rin Chafu as Mr. Veterinarian

The anime will premiere in July and will air on TV Asahi and 23 other affiliate channels in the "NUMAnimation" programming block.

The anime stars:

• Saori Hayami as Fuji

• Yuna Kamakura as Mimi

• Satomi Satō as Ren

• Yuzu Yumoto as Kii Ella Krause

Tomohiro Tsukimisato (Kirakira Kirari☆, Bikkuri-Men, Tanuki to Kitsune) is directing the anime at Lesprit. Touko Machida (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life, Battle Game in 5 Seconds) is in charge of series scripts, and Ayano Ōwada (Bikkuri-Men, How Clumsy you are, Miss Ueno) is designing the characters.

Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story:

If it looks like a dog and acts like a dog and insists it's a dog, it's…a dog? Probably? She adopted it anyway, and her life with this “dog” will never be boring!

Nikaido launched the manga in Young Magazine in August 2020. Kodansha published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on September 5. Kodansha USA Publishing released the seventh volume on February 11.

Source: Weekly Young Magazine issue 16