Akane-banashi (TV)

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Alternative title:
あかね噺 (Japanese)
Genres: drama
Plot Summary: Shinta and his daughter Akane have been seduced by the wonderful storytelling of Rakugo, where everything is expressed with just your body and words. Having observed her father strive to pass the shin'uchi rakugo test, Akane takes her own steps into this unique artform.
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 4
Vintage:
2026-04-04
2026-05-16 (Netflix; English dub)
Opening Theme:
"Hitotarashi" (人誑し / ひとたらし) by Keisuke Kuwata
Ending Theme:
"AKANE On My Mind ~ Manjū Kowai" (AKANE On My Mind〜饅頭こわい) by Keisuke Kuwata
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Ayumu Watanabe
Series Composition: Michihiro Tsuchiya
Character Design: Kii Tanaka
Art Director: Takumi Oda
Animation Director: Takao Takegami (ep 3)
Sound Director: Noriyoshi Konuma
Director of Photography: Yūta Nakamura
Executive producer:
Hiroshi Yanai (TV Asahi)
Kei Mizutani (TV Asahi Music)
Shōki Niwa (Aniplex)
Tatsuro Hayashi (Shueisha)
Yūko Matsui (BS Asahi)
Producer:
Gō Wakabayashi (Aniplex)
Hiroki Okagawa (Shueisha)
Kazuki Endo (TV Asahi)

Animation producer: Kiyoshi Shintaku
Art Setting: Shūhei Tada
Assistant Director:
Yu Harima
Assistant producer: Mariya Kato
Associate producer:
Ayumi Iwasaki (BS Asahi)
Eimi Nakagawa (TV Asahi Music)
Color design: Saori Gōda
Costume Design: Noriko Shimazawa
Hakata Dialect Direction: Erina Koga (eps 7, 9-11)
Kamigata Dialect Direction: Bebe Shōfukutei (eps 8, 10)
Key Animation: Takao Takegami (ep 2)
Original Work Cooperation:
Hitoshi Koike (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department)
Kōhei Ōnishi (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department)
Seisuke Araki (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department)
Shū Murakoshi (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department)
Takaaki Kuwahara (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department)
Tetsuya Kodaira (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department)
Yū Saitō (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department)
Planning:
Atsuhiro Iwakami (Aniplex)
Hiroaki Nishimura (BS Asahi)
Hiroyuki Dekura (TV Asahi Music)
Hitoshi Ono (TV Asahi)
Kiyoshi Shintaku (ZEXCS)
Yoshihisa Heishi (Shueisha)
Yūta Furukawa (AbemaTV)
Production Committee:
Hiroyuki Shimizu (Aniplex)
Makoto Ōyoshi (Shueisha)
Masanori Miyake (Aniplex)
Shinichiro Kashiwada (Aniplex)
Takahiro Habuta (Shueisha)
Tomoharu Matsuhisa (TV Asahi)
Prop Design: Yoshinori Iwanaga
Rakugo Supervisor: Kikuhiko Hayashiya
Sub-Character Design: Yasunari Nitta
Theme Song Composition: Keisuke Kuwata (OP, ED)
Theme Song Lyrics: Keisuke Kuwata (OP, ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Keisuke Kuwata (OP; ED)
Anna Nagase as Akane Ōsaki

Akihisa Shiono as Kaisei Arakawa
Akio Ōtsuka as Isshō Arakawa
Chiaki Kobayashi as Koguma Arakawa
Fumihiko Tachiki as Zenshō Arakawa
Hiroaki Hirata as Ikken Arakawa
Jun Fukuyama as Shinta Arakawa (Tōru Ōsaki)
Masaki Terasoma as Shiguma Arakawa
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Maikeru Arakawa
Rie Takahashi as Hikaru Kōragi
Ryōta Iwasaki as Kimihisa Kashio
Seiichirō Yamashita as Guriko Arakawa
Shizuka Itō as Masaki Ōsaki
Takuya Eguchi as Karashi Nerimaya
Yōhei Azakami as Kyoji Arakawa
Yumiko Konatsu as Saki Yoshino

Aiki Mukumoto as student (ep 8)
Aino Shimada as Sae Komi (eps 7-10)
Akinori Egoshi as audience (ep 9)
Anko Hayashiya as Karaku Cup staff (eps 10-11)
Asuna Tomari as Jumbo (age 10; ep 1)
Ayato Morinaga as Karaku Cup participant (ep 9)
Bakō Kingentei as izakaya customer (ep 3)
Bebe Shōfukutei as senpai student (ep 8)
Chiyuki Miura as Hanae Minase (ep 8)
Densuke Kokontei as male audience member (ep 10)
Erina Koga as audience (ep 10)
Fukushi Ochiai as Jumbo (ep 5)
Gohantsubu San'yūtei as senpai student (ep 8)
Hana Satō as old person (ep 4)
Haruka Minami as Moko Mokoya (ep 8)
Hayato Dōjima as student (ep 5)
Hayato Yamamoto as
male customer (ep 3)
student (ep 5)
Hidenari Ugaki as monster voice actor (ep 9)
Hinano Shirahama as mother (ep 6)
Ichihana Shunpūtei as old woman (ep 4)
Ichizō Shunpūtei as young rakugoka (ep 1)
Iruru Shimizu as audience (ep 10)
Junko Oka as mother (ep 6)
Kazuki Asami as child (ep 6)
Kazuki Ura as Shōhei (eps 7-11)
Kazuyuki Okitsu as Ryūjaku Sakaki (eps 8, 10)
Kichiroku Yanagiya as male audience member (ep 9)
Kikuhiko Hayashiya as rakugo audio (ep 5)
Koenshi Ryūtei as young rakugoka (ep 1)
Kohada Yanagiya as zenza (ep 7)
Kōhei Yanagi as audience (ep 9)
Kōji Seki as Chūsuke Chūōtei (ep 7)
Kōji Takeda as Mamoru Mikuriya (eps 3-4, 11)
Kōjirō San'yūtei as karaoke employee (ep 2)
Kōki Ohsuzu as Karaku Cup participant (ep 9)
Komon Yanagiya as Karaku Cup manager (ep 6)
Kōsuke Echigoya as Hakushū Kashiwaya (eps 3, 6)
Kotone Izumi as voice actress (ep 9)
Kurumi Orihara as female audience member (ep 2)
Kyōsuke Mano as student (ep 8)
Marie Ōi as
audience (ep 9)
interviewer (ep 6)
Karaku Cup participant (ep 7)
old person (ep 4)
Mariya Ise as Machiko Iwashimizu (eps 5-11)
Minori Fujidera as Risa Kadokura (ep 5)
Nana Hasumi as
child (ep 6)
student (ep 5)
Nanako Hayashiya as female audience member (ep 9)
Rei Ichinomiya as Yuka Osanai (ep 5)
Rena Motomura as Karaku Cup participant (ep 7)
Reo Osanai as Karaku Cup participant (ep 7)
Riho Sugiyama as Hiiragi (eps 3-4)
Riko Akechi as Karaku Cup participant (ep 7)
Rokusuke Yanagiya as young man (ep 5)
Ryō Sugisaki as old person (ep 4)
Ryūho Nagaoka as student (ep 8)
Saiko Moriya as old person (ep 4)
Sakura Sakakura as audience (ep 10)
Satoshi Niwa as Karaku Cup participant (ep 7)
Saya Hitomi as female audience member (ep 7)
Sayaka Kamitani as child (ep 6)
Senka Sen'yūtei as Riichi (ep 2)
Senkyō Irifunetei as young rakugoka (ep 1)
Serika Hiromatsu as Ozaki's mom (ep 1)
Shinya Takahashi as emcee (ep 1)
Sōshirō Hori as
audience (ep 10)
Karaku Cup staff (ep 9)
male audience member (ep 2)
old person (ep 4)
passerby (ep 6)
reporter (ep 7)
Studio Three proprietor (ep 3)
zenza (ep 1)
Suzuka Hara as
audience (ep 10)
child (ep 6)
Karaku Cup participant (ep 7)
voice actress (ep 9)
Taichi Takeda as foreign customer (ep 3)
Takashi Uezumiya as zenza (ep 1)
Tamari Sakai as old person (ep 4)
Tetsuya Kawatō as Megane Chūōtei (ep 8)
Tomohiro Ōno as Zento Hanai (ep 8)
Yasunori Masutani as Tainaka (ep 4)
Yū Wakabayashi as
Madoka (eps 7, 9)
old person (ep 4)
Yanagiya-sensei (ep 1)
Yumi Narusawa as audience (ep 10)
Yurina Kikuchi as audience (ep 9)
Yūsuke Tonozaki as emcee (ep 8)
Japanese companies
2D Works: Graphinica
2nd Key Animation:
A-1 Pictures (ep 1)
A-1 Pictures Fukuoka Studio (ep 1)
Geno Studio (ep 1)
NUT (ep 1)
Snowdrop (ep 1)
Studio Kurm (OP)
ZEXCS (OP; ep 1)
Animation Production: ZEXCS
Background Art: Kusanagi (OP; ep 1)
Background Art Cooperation:
Amienation Studio (ep 1)
Hayabusa Film (ep 1)
Nam Hai (ep 1)
Broadcaster: TV Asahi (IMAnimation)
Editing: EditZ
Finish Animation:
D-COLORS (ep 1)
Dangun Pictures (ep 1)
Iris Media (ep 1)
Seven Seas (ep 1)
Studio BUS (ep 1)
In-Between Animation:
AXsiZ (ep 1)
GAINAX Kyoto (ep 1)
Geno Studio (ep 1)
Graphinica (ep 1)
Iris Media (ep 1)
NUT (ep 1)
OUTLINE (ep 1)
Seven Seas (OP; ep 1)
Studio BUS (ep 1)
Studio Colorido Kyoto (OP)
studio daisy (ep 1)
Sunrise Animation Juku (ep 1)
SynergySP (ep 1)
ZEXCS (OP; ep 1)
Key Animation:
Studio Kurm (OP)
ZEXCS (OP; ep 1)
Music Cooperation: TV Asahi Music
Original Work Cooperation: Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department
special effects: Yumeta Company
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Alex Von David
Translation: Yuki Urakawa
ADR Script:
Alex Von David (eps 1-4, 6)
Laura Stahl (ep 5)
Executive producer: Eric P. Sherman

Assistant Audio Manager: Mara Westgaard
Associate producer: Misa Shimogata
Audio Operations Supervisor: Ismael Yanez
Casting Director: Mami Okada
Closed Captions: Kaylyn Saucedo
Production Assistant: Alisa Ogura-Traxler
Re-Recording Mixing: Michael Brooks
Recording engineer: Kenneth Thompson
Sound Supervision: Patrick Rodman
Spotting: Breaugh Olson
Video Coordination: Kevin Ross
Video Editing: Megumi M. Tsuji
Abby Trott as Akane Osaki

Anne Yatco as Hikaru Kōragi
Brook Chalmers as Shiguma Arakawa
Clifford Chapin as Kimihisa Kashio
Darius Marquis Johnson as Guriko Arakawa
Evan Michael Lee as lssho Arakawa
Jonathon Ha as Kyoji Arakawa
Kellen Goff as Karashi Nerimaya
Khoi Dao as Koguma Arakawa
Kirk Thornton as lkken Arakawa
Landon McDonald as Maikeru Arakawa
Matt Shipman as Kaisei Arakawa
Mona Marshall as Saki Yoshino
Rebecca Wang as Masaki Osaki
Rich Brown as Zensho Arakawa
Xander Mobus as Shinta Arakawa

Brent Mukai as Hakushu Kashiwaya (eps 3, 6)
Clifford Chapin as
Emcee (ep 1)
Riichi (ep 2)
Dorah Fine as Mrs. Ozaki
Doug Stone as Tainaka
Eurie Nam as
Interviewer
Yuka Osanai
Jenny Yokobori as Machiko Iwashimizu
Kirk Thornton as Yanagiya-sensei (ep 1)
Landon McDonald as
Mamoru Mikuriya (eps 3-4)
Miku-Chan
Laura Stahl as Hiragi (eps 3-4)
Mick Lauer as Jumbo Ozaki
Rebecca Wang as Lisa Kadokura

English companies
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Internet Streaming:
Netflix
YouTube (via "Akane-banashi Global"; North America)
French staff
French cast
Dubbing Director: Alan Aubert

Adaptation: Benjy Michelet
Production manager: Caroline Courtinat
Sophie Ouaknine as Akane Ōsaki

Alexandre Gillet as Shinta Arakawa
Anthony Carter as Guriko Arakawa
Catherine Lafond as Saki Yoshino
Emmanuel Gradi as Ikken Arakawa
Franck Gourlat as Zensho Arakawa
Karine Foviau as Masaki Ōsaki
Pascal Germain as Shiguma Arakawa
Phillipe Roullier as Isshō Arakawa

Lévanah Solomon as Akane Osaki (enfant)
Nathalie Homs as
Jumbo Ozaki
Madame Ozaki
Pierre Carbonnier as
Monsieur Yanagiya
Présentateur

French companies
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: Emmanuel Bernal
Translation:
Gorka Merino (Spain dub)
Nuria Cimas (Spain dub)
ADR Script: Toyomi Maquita

ADR Engineer: Pouleng Pun
ADR Mixing: Charles Arape
Operations Management: Oscar Emeterio González
Production: Daniela Tejedo
Production Supervision: Daniela Martínez
Project Management: Daniela Martínez
Studio Management: Ricardo Tejedo
Talent Coordination: Citlalli Padilla
Nycolle González as Akane Osaki

Ricardo Tejedo as Tohru Osaki/Shinta Arakawa
Spanish companies
ADR Production: Media Access Company
Internet Streaming:
Anime Box (Spain)
Netflix
YouTube (via "Akane-banashi Global"; Latin America)
Licensed by: Selecta Visión (Spain)
Translation: Daruma Serveis Lingüístics (Spain dub)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Patrizio Prata
Translation: Andrea Prodomo
Executive producer: Francesco Di Sanzo

Dialogues: Marco Altini
Dubbing Assistant: Cristina Minoja
Dubbing Coordination: Orlando Leone
Dubbing Engineer: Stefano Bassanelli
Federica Simonelli as Akane Osaki

Alessandro Fattori as Kyoji Arakawa
Andrea Failla as Shiguma Arakawa
Francesco Mei as Ikken Arakawa
Francesco Rizzi as Zensho Arakawa
Jolanda Granato as Masaki Osaki
Lorella De Luca as Saki Yoshino
Lorenzo Briganti as Koguma Arakawa
Marco Briglione as Guriko Arakawa
Mario Zucca as Issho Arakawa
Matteo De Mojana as Kaisei Arakawa
Paolo De Santis as Shinta Arakawa (Tōru Ōsaki)
Italian companies
Internet Streaming:
Amazon Prime Video (Anime Generation)
Anime Generation
Licensed by: Yamato Video
German cast
German staff
Rakugo-consultant: Sarah Stark
Subtitling: Anja Truong
Translation (Dub): Anja Truong
(none)
German companies
Internet Streaming: Aniverse
Polish staff
Polish cast
Subtitle Translation: Ewa Nowicka (Netflix; eps 1-2)
(none)
Polish companies
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: YouTube (via "Akane-banashi Global"; Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)
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