Despite its name, manga magazine Shonen Sunday is actually released on Wednesday. The relevance to that here is that the cast additions to fall's TV anime adaptation of Daichi Sorayomi's 2013 ongoing ecchi sports comedy Keijo!!!!!!!! (aka Hip Whip Girl) that leaked earlier in the week have now been officially announced. And, with it, the character designs for this new trio have been published.

Hideya Takahashi (Pokemon: The Origin, episode director My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) directs the XEBEC production with Takao Kato writing series composition and Keiya Nakano (AOKANA: Four Rhythm Across the Blue) on character design.





Hanabi Kawai - Rena Maeda (Hunter x Hunter's Machi)

Mio Kusakai - Hibiku Yamamura (Kiznaiver's Noriko Sonozaki)

Rin Rokudo - Rie Takahashi (Konosuba's Megumin, Re:ZERO's Emilia)

Leads include

Nozomi Kaminashi: Lynn - former gymnast



Sayaka Miyata: M · A · O - judo prodigy



Kazane Aoba: Kaede Hondo - a shy girl who enjoys reading and games



Non Toyoguchi: Saori Onishi - a clumsy girl from a farming community

Lynn, M.A.O, Kaede Hondo, and Saori Onishi will also be singing end theme "Fantas/HIP Girlfriends!," and their single jacket art has been previewed.





via Natalie

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.