Series about single father raising a daughter premieres in July

The official website for for the television anime of Gido Amagakure's Sweetness and Lightning (Amaama to Inazuma) manga announced two additional cast members on Thursday. They are:

Haruka Tomatsu (Sword Art Online's Asuna) as Shinobu Kojika, Kotori's friend and classmate Tomokazu Seki (Fate/stay night's Gilgamesh) as Yūsuke Yagi, a café bar owner

Previously-announced cast members include:

Yūichi Nakamura (Fairy Tail's Gray) as Kouhei Inuzuka Rina Endo (Barakamon's Hina Kubota) as Tsumugi Inuzuka Saori Hayami (Snow White with the Red Hair's Shirayuki) as Kotori Iida

Tarou Iwasaki (Ryoko's Case File, One Week Friends) is directing the series at TMS Entertainment with animation cooperation by Shin-Ei Animation. Mitsutaka Hirota (The Prince of Tennis II, X-Men, Bono Bono) is handling the series composition and Hiroki Harada (The Pilot's Love Song, [email protected], Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal) is designing the characters.

Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga digitally and plans to release the series in print in July. Crunchyroll is publishing new chapters as Kodansha is publishing them in Japan.

Kodansha Comics describes the story:

Having lost his wife, math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his young daughter Tsumugi as a single father. He's pretty bad at cooking and doesn't have a huge appetite to begin with, but chance brings his little family and one of his students, Kotori Iida, together for homemade adventures. With those three cooks in the kitchen, it's no wonder this dinner table drama is so delicious.

The anime will premiere in July.

Amagakure (100 Blossoms to Love) launched the manga in good! Afternoon in 2013, and Kodansha is publishing the manga's sixth compiled volume on March 7.

[Via Comic Natalie]