The official website for the television animeadaptation ofTakumi Hiiragi-Boshi'sAbsolute Duo light novel seriesannounced additional cast members and the broadcast date on Friday. The series will premiere on January 4 onAT-X.

The new cast includes:

• Haruka Tomatsu as Imari Nagakura
• Yukari Tamura as Rito Tsukimi
• Yui Horie as Sakuya Tsukumo
• Natsuki Hanae as Tora
• Yoshihisa Kawahara as Tatsu

The website also unveiled character designs for the maincast:

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tōru Kokonoe



Nozomi Yamamoto as Yurie Sigtuna



Ayaka Suwa as Tomoe Tachibana



Ayaka Imamura as Miyabi Hotaka



Haruka Yamazaki as Lilith Bristol

Atsushi Nakayama (A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives,Is This a Zombie? episode director) will direct the anime at8-Bit (Infinite Stratos,Grisaia no Kajitsu) with series composition byTakamitsu Kouno (Minami-ke Tadaima,Kyo no Gononi).Keiichi Sano (Heaven's Memo Pad,Strike the Blood) will design the characters for the series, and will also serve as animation director along withNorie Tanaka (M3 the dark metal chief animation director,Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic episode animation director).

The story begins with Blaze — a weapon that is the manifestation of a human's soul. Tōru Kokonoe happens to be qualified for this, but for some reason his Blaze is not a weapon, but a shield. Moreover, he enrolled in a school that teaches combat skills, and thanks to the school's Duo partner system, he ends up living with a beautiful silver-haired girl named Yurie Sigtuna (a reference to the Sweden town, Sigtuna), a study-abroad student from Gimlé (a location in Norse mythology) within the Nordic countries.

Hiiragi-Boshi launched the light novel series with art byYū Asaba in 2012, andMedia Factory's MF Bunko published the sixth volume in July.Shinichirō Nariie launched a manga adaptation inMedia Factory'sMonthly Comic Alive magazine last July, and another spinoff manga series is serializing inMonthly Comic Alive.

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Images ©Takumi Hiiragi-Boshi,Kadokawa CorportationMedia Factory/Absolute DuoProduction Committee