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Girl Friend BETA TV Anime Adds 3rd Round of Cast Members

The official Twitter account for the Girl Friend (Kari) (Girl Friend BETA) television anime announced a new cast member every day from August 26 through September 2. The eight new cast members include:

• Yui Ogura as Momoko Asahina
• Kaori Mizuhashi as Kinoko Himejima
• Saori Hayami as Haruka Kazemachi
• Ryoko Shintani as Kyoko Tachibana
• Aki Toyosaki as Raimu Nejikawa
• Kanae Itō as Marika Saeki
• Saori Gotō as Nagiko Kurokawa
• Aya Suzaki as Kurumi Eto

The rest of the cast includes:

• Kaori Nazuka as Fumio Murakami
• Sakura Tange as Chloe Lemaire
• Satomi Satou as Kokomi Shiina
• Hitomi Harada as Erena Mochizuki
• Rina Satō as Akane Sakurai
• Haruka Tomatsu as Nonoka Sasahara
• Kaori Ishihara as Yuzuko Hazuki
• Kikuko Inoue as Kanata Amatsu
• Aoi Yūki as Isuzu Shiranui
• Yukari Tamura as Koruri Tokitani
• Minori Chihara as Mahiro Natsume
• Minako Kotobuki as Saya Kagurazaka
• Minami Tsuda as Mutsumi Shigino
• Maaya Uchida as Nao Miyoshi
• Rie Kugimiya as Matsuri Kagami
• Emiri Katō as Rino Suzukawa
• Houko Kuwashima as Shinobu Kokonoe
• Noriko Shitaya as Remi Tamai
• Ayahi Takagaki as Tsugumi Harumiya
• Ai Kayano as Haruko Yumesaki

The anime adapts CyberAgent's social romance simulation game of the same name. The five previously announced cast members are reprising their roles from the original 2012 smartphone game.

Naotaka Hayashi (Morita-san wa Mukuchi, Magi: The Kingdom of Magic assistant director) will direct the anime at the Studio Silver Link (No-Rin, C³, Baka and Test). Michiko Yokote (Love Stage!!, No-Rin, Genshiken) will handle series composition. Noriko Tsutsumiya (Dragonar Academy, C³, Kokoro Connect animation director) is designing the characters based on original character designs by QP:flapper (MM!, Oreimo 2, Sora no Method).

Kadokawareleased the first issue of the special Girl Friend (Kari) Magazine on August 22. The magazine included four manga series that focus on specific characters from the anime. Tsukako Akina launched the Girl Friend (Kari) Kokomi Shiina ~Koi Shite Madonna~ manga in the September issue of Kadokawa's Dengeki Maoh magazine on July 26.

CyberAgent's blogging website Ameba started service for the game for smartphones in 2012. As of June 2014, the number of registered users has passed 5.3 million. The game features over one hundred girls for the player to date, each voiced by a different voice actress. Some of the game's cast includes Yui Ogura as Momoko Asahina, Nana Inoue as Kazumi Kawabuchi, Megumi Toyoguchi as Akiho Shigetō, and Yukari Tamura as Koruri Tokitani

The series will premiere in Japan on October 12.