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April Showers Bring May Flowers TV Anime's Video Reveals Cast, July 4 Premiere

The official website for the television anime of Roku Sakura's April Showers Bring May Flowers (Busu ni Hanataba o) manga revealed on Friday a new promotional video for the anime as well more cast, the ending theme song artist, and the July 4 premiere. The below video previews the opening theme song.

Makoto Koichi will play Keisuke Ueno and Tasuku Hatanaka will play Tsutomu Shinbashi.

GLASGOW will perform the anime's ending theme song "Souvenir."

The previously announced cast members include:

• Saori Hayami as Hana Tabata
• Shimba Tsuchiya as Yosuke Ueno
• Yoshino Aoyama as Sumire Uguisudani
• Yoshimasa Hosoya as Tetsuo Gotanda

Mirai Minato (Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!, Mission: Yozakura Family) is both directing the series and overseeing the series scripts at SILVER LINK. Miwa Ōshima (Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts, Koihime Musō) is designing the characters with Beat as the sub-character designer, and Yūki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Haikyu!!) and Shōgo Yamashiro (My Hero Academia: Vigilantes) are composing the music.

TWS will perform the opening theme song "BLOOM (feat. Ayumu Imazu)" for the series.

Other staff members include:

• Prop Design: Moe Tanaka
• Art Director: Hideto Nakahara
• Art 3D Object Design: Yoshiki Enomoto
• Color Design: Akira Igarashi
• Director of Photography: Yūko Shintani
• Editing: Yūji Kondō (REAL-T)
• Sound Director: Masanori Tsuchiya

Sakura launched the manga in Kadokawa's Monthly Young Ace in April 2016, and ended it in September 2022. Kadokawa published the manga's 12th and final compiled book volume in November 2022.

Yen Press is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the series:

Pessimistic high school student Hana Tabata doesn't believe her life could ever be like that of a heroine from the shoujo manga she reads—she's convinced she's ugly, and she's always alone. Still, she can't help but imagine herself as a leading lady when she's changing out flowers early one morning...until she's caught in the act by her handsome classmate Yousuke Ueno! Hana can't wrap her head around his kind words at first, but as they grow closer, she finds her life slowly beginning to change…

Sakura launched a new "special edition" series for the manga in the April issue of Monthly Young Ace on March 4.

Update: The short series ended in its fifth chapter on July 4, and will have an extra chapter in the next issue on August 4. The manga is also getting a 13th volume on August 4. Source: Young Ace August issue

Sources: April Showers Bring May Flowers anime's website (link 2), MoCa News