The Japanese distribution company Animate revealed the distribution information for the Blu-ray / DVD compilation packages of the animated manga adaptation, written and illustrated by Marimo Ragawa, Mashiro no Oto ((These snow-white notes). This information confirmed that the series will have a total of twelve episodes.
- Package 1 (episodes 1-3) – July 28, 2021.
- Package 2 (episodes 4 to 6) – August 25, 2021.
- Package 3 (episodes 7 to 9) – September 29, 2021.
- Package 4 (episodes 10-12) – October 27, 2021.
The series premieres in Japan on April 2, while the platform Crunchyroll takes care of sales in the west. For his part, Ragawa began to publish the manga in the magazine Monthly Shonen Magazine from the publisher Kodansha The publisher released the twenty-fifth compiled volume in May 2020, followed by the twenty-sixth on November 17 in Japan.
Cast
- Nobunaga Shimazaki like Setsu Sawamura.
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Wakana Sawamura.
- Yume Miyamoto as Akari Maeda.
- Queen Kondo as Yui Yamazato.
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Kaito Yaguchi.
- Tatsuhisa suzuki like Rai Nagamori.
- Takako Honda as Umeko Sawamura.
Production team
- Hiroaki Akagi ((Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san, Hina Logi: From Luck & Logic) is responsible for directing the anime in the studios Shin-egg animation.
- Yoichi kato ((Aikatsu!, City Hunter Film: Shinjuku Private Eyes, Duel Master) is responsible for writing and monitoring the series scripts.
- Jiro Mashima is responsible for the character design.
- The group Yoshida brothers ((Nintendo Wii, Gibiate) is responsible for overseeing the tsugaru jamisen music of the series.
Synopsis of Mashiro no Oto
The shamisen is a traditional Japanese musical instrument that looks like a guitar. The grandfather of the teenager Sawamura Setsu, who raised him and his older brother Wakana, recently passed away. His grandfather was one of the best players on Shamisen and the two brothers listened to him play and learned to play the instrument.
Since her grandfather’s death, Setsu has dropped out of prep school, moved to Tokyo and has not drifted other than playing her shamisen. Then his successful and wealthy mother Umeko breaks into his life and tries to shape Setsu. She enrolls him back in high school, but Setsu doesn’t know that she will rediscover her passion for shamisen.
Source: Animate
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