'Kanata no Astra' Announces Additional Cast, Production Staff

The official website of the Kanata no Astra (Astra Lost in Space) anime series revealed additional cast, staff, and a new key visual (pictured) on Saturday. The television anime adaptation of Kenta Shinohara's sci-fi action manga will premiere in July 2019.

Cast
Zack Walker: Shunsuke Takeuchi (Caligula)
Quitterie Raffaelli: Tomoyo Kurosawa (Hibike! Euphonium)
Funicia Raffaelli: Hina Kino (Asobi Asobase)
Luca Esposito: Risae Matsuda (Toji no Miko)
Ulgar Zweig: Kouki Uchiyama (Devilman: Crybaby)
Yun-Hua Lu: Saori Hayami (Fukumenkei Noise)
Charce Lacroix: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru)

Staff
Assistant Director: Yuusuke Shibata (Hakumei to Mikochi episode director)
Main Chief Animation Director: Keiko Kurosawa (Kuzu no Honkai)
Sub Chief Animation Director: Yumiko Yamamoto (Sword Art Online: Alicization animation director)
Mechanical Design: Hiroshi Arisawa (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans mechanical animation director)
Prop Design: Hiroyuki Honda (Shichisei no Subaru)
Space Creature Design: Tomohito Hirose (Radiant)
Art Director: Masatoshi Kai (Goblin Slayer)
Art Setting: Jun Tora (Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue.), Hirofune Hane (Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku art director)
Color Design: Saki Tada (Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou)
Director of Photography: Junko Sakai (Sakamoto Desu ga?)
CGI: Larx Entertainment
CG Director: Daisuke Katou (Machine-Doll wa Kizutsukanai)
2D Design: Imamura (Barakamon editing)
Monitor Design: Kanako Yamada (Level E)
Editing: Naoki Miyazaki (Konohana Kitan)
Music: Masaru Yokoyama (Fate/Apocrypha), Nobuaki Nobusawa (Steins;Gate 0)
Music Production: Kadokawa
Sound Director: Satoki Iida (Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e)
Sound Effects: Ijou Okuda (Persona 5 the Animation)
Producer: Yuuji Higa (Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace animation producer)
Production: Kanata no Astra Production Committee

Masaomi Andou (Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse) is directing the anime at Lerche, featuring character designs by Keiko Kurosawa. Norimitsu Kaihou (Gakkougurashi!) is in charge of series composition.

Shinohara launched Kanata no Astra in Shounen Jump+ web magazine in May 2016, three years after ending the serialization of SKET Dance. The manga concluded the following December with 49 chapters. Shueisha published the manga in five volumes, with the latest in February 2018.

VIZ Media began publishing the chapters on its website in August 2016 and licensed the manga for physical release in November 2017. The fifth and last volume was released last December.

Source: animate Times