The official website for the television anime adaptation of Mitsuki's Hinako Note manga updated on Wednesday with a new key visual with all six characters that have been revealed thus far.'

Kadokawa's booth at Anime Japan this March 25-26 will distribute stickers with super-deformed images of the Hinako Note characters.

The anime stars (Note: Not all character name romanizations are confirmed.):

M.A.O as Hinako Sakuragi



Miyu Tomita as Kuina Natsugawa



Yui Ogura as Mayuki Hiiragi



Hisako Tōjō as Chiaki Ogino



Marika Kōno as Yua Nakajima



Yuri Yoshida as Ruriko Kuroyanagi



Takeo Takahashi ( Rozen Maiden , Spice and Wolf , Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers ) is credited as the chief director for the anime. Toru Kitahata ( Love, Election and Chocolate , Haganai NEXT ) is directing the anime at Passione. Tatsuhiko Urahata ( Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere , GATE ) is supervising the series' scripts. Kazuyuki Ueda ( Kinmoza! Kiniro + Mosaic , Haitai Nanafa ) is adapting the character designs for animation and is also serving as chief animation director. Yukari Hashimoto ( March comes in like a lion , Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun ) is composing the music. Anima & Company (Orange) is producing the series.

M.A.O, Tomita, Ogura, Tōjō, and Kōno perform the opening theme song "Curtain Call!!!!!" and the ending theme song "A-e-i-u-e-o-ao!!" as the musical unit Gekidan Hitotose (Theater Group Hitotose). Hitotose is the name of the bookstore that appears in the series.

The manga centers on titular protagonist Hinako, who is poor at speaking, and lives in a rural part of Japan. She wants to improve her speech to be able to talk to people freely, so in high school, she transfers schools to Tokyo and plans to join a theater club. When she arrives, it turns out her boarding house is a secondhand bookstore, and a girl who eats books lives there.