The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei Anime Casts 4 Classmates
The staff of the television anime based on Aki Shimizu's The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei: He Just Solves All the Mysteries (Chūzenji-sensei Mononoke Kōgiroku: Sensei ga Nazo o Toite Shimaukara.), the spinoff manga and prequel to Natsuhiko Kyōgoku's Hyakki Yakō novel series, announced four more cast members for the protagonist Kanna's classmates on Saturday. Pony Canyon describes the story: The series stars:Chihiro Kumano (episode director for A Couple of Cuckoos, Moriarty the Patriot) is directing the anime at 100Studio. Atsushi Oka (Hensuki, Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez scripts) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Masahiko Suzuki (Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs) is designing the characters. Toshiki Kameyama is the sound director, and Keiichi Hirokawa and Ryūichi Takada from MONACA are composing the music.HoneyWorks feat. KAF performs the opening theme song "She Is Now in the Labyrinth." Composer Shunryū's music project Sizuk performs the ending theme song "Kimi no Shiranai Koto" (What You Don't Know).Additional staff members include: The anime will premiere on the TV Tokyo channel on April 7 at 25:30 (effectively, April 8 at 1:30 a.m. or April 7 at 12:30 p.m. EDT), and it will also run BS TV Tokyo and AT-X.Shimizu launched the manga in Kodansha's Shonen Magazine Edge in October 2019. The manga moved to Kodansha's Comic Days app when the magazine ended publication in October 2023. Kodansha published the manga's 11th compiled book volume on March 7.The manga is based on the Bara Jūji Sōsho (Rozen Kreuz Series) novels, which is described as a "shared world" of Kyōgoku's Hyakki Yakō novel series. Kyogoku is credited as "founder" of the series. The 10-novel series began in 2015 with different authors and illustrators.Sources: Comic Natalie
