The official website for the anime adaptation of Kagami Yoshimizu's Lucky Star spinoff manga Miyakawa-ke no Kūfuku (The Miyakawa Family's Hunger) announced the cast on Monday. Many of the lead roles are being voiced by new talent, but four Lucky Star cast members are also reprising their roles:

Kotoe Kawasaki as Hikage Miyakawa

Marina Shimagata as Hinata Miyakawa

Madoka Sowa as Yukina Utsumi

Kanae Iwasaki as Erika Koike

Karin Oda as Daisuke Mizushima

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kazuhiko Osawa

Natsume Yamada as Marina Koike

Tomokazu Seki as Meito Anizawa (Anime Tenchō)

Fumihiko Tachiki, Kujira as Hikage Miyakawa's classmates and other roles

Aya Hirano as Konata Izumi

Emiri Katō as Kagami Hiiragi

Kaori Fukuhara as Tsukasa Hiiragi

Hiromi Konno as Akira Kogami

Other voices will be revealed later.

Yutaka Yamamoto or "Yamakan" (Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, episodes of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucky Star) is directing the anime at his studio Ordet and Encourage Films. Takeshi Yasuda and Hiroaki Takeuchi planned and developed the project in collaboration with Touyou Ikeda. Touko Machida (Lucky Star, The [email protected]) is overseeing the series scripts, and Mamoru Ikeya designed the characters.

Kenichi Maeyamada (songs in Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts , Nichijou - My Ordinary Life, Bodacious Space Pirates) is composing the music. The opening theme song "Kachigumi" is credited to Konata Izumi and Kagami Hiiragi, while the ending theme song "Makegumi" is credited to Hinata and Hikage Miyakawa.

The original manga is based on the Lucky Star Moe Drill game series. It centers around big sister Hinata Miyakawa and little sister Hikage Miyakawa's impoverished daily life at home (due to Hinata's wasteful habits) and Hikage's life at elementary school.

The anime will begin streaming on the Ustream service on April 29 at 9:00 p.m. in Japan. A Miyakawa-ke no Chara Come Radio show will also premiere on Ustream on April 15 at 9:00 p.m. The anime's website previews the designs and posted a new color four-panel manga marking the release of the anime.

[Via Otakomu]

Image © Kagami Yoshimizu, Kadokawa Shoten/Harapeko