Anime premieres July 5 12:50 a.m. (JKT/BKK)/1:50 a.m. (SIN), 45 minutes after Japanese broadcast

Southeast Asian channel Aniplus HD announced on Tuesday that it will air a simulcast of the Sweetness and Lightning ( Amaama to Inazuma ) anime. The anime will premiere on the channel on July 5 at 12:50 a.m. in Jakarta and Bangkok, and 1:50 a.m. in Singapore, only 45 minutes after the Japanese broadcast.

The anime will premiere in Japan on Tokyo MX, Yomiuri TV, and BS11 on July 5. The series will be the first anime on the new "Anime no Me" programming block established by TMS Entertainment, Shinei Animation, East Japan Marketing & Communications, Inc., Sumitomo Corporation, and Asmik-Ace Entertainment.

Sweetness and Lightning's cast includes:



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 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

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.

"Audiovisual unit" Mimi Meme MIMI will perform the opening theme song "Harebare Fanfare" (Bright Fanfare). Brian the Sun will perform the anime's ending theme song, titled "Maybe."

The anime is based on Gido Amagakure's manga of the same name. The story centers on Kouhei Inuzuka, now a single father raising his daughter Tsumugi after the untimely loss of his wife. Though not a smart kitchen hand, circumstances bring one of his students, Kotori Iida, to help him.