{"id":30610,"date":"2026-06-26T18:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/mirei-kumagai-joins-voice-cast-of-kindergarten-wars-tv-anime-series\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:58:44","slug":"mirei-kumagai-joins-voice-cast-of-kindergarten-wars-tv-anime-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/mirei-kumagai-joins-voice-cast-of-kindergarten-wars-tv-anime-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirei Kumagai Joins Voice Cast of Kindergarten Wars TV Anime Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voice actress <\/span>Mirei Kumagai <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">joining the voice cast<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the upcoming <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kindergarten Wars<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> TV anime series. The anime will <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">premiere in Japan in Spring 2027<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kumagai will voice the teacher character Mac, who wears a yellow bear costume. She previously voiced Mimori Futaba from the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Backflip!!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> anime series.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">She joins a previously announced voice cast that include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Atsumi Tanezaki <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Rita<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Kentaro Kumagai <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Doug<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Hitomi Owada<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Hana<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Satoshi Hino<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Luke<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 <\/span>Mariya Ise<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Silvia<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Shinsuke Gomi <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is directing the anime series, with <\/span>Junko Yamanaka<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as the character designer. <\/span>Sunrise<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span>Felix Film<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are handling the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An anime adaptation of the manga was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">first announced in October 2025<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">You Chiba<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s action romantic comedy web manga series debuted on Shueisha\u2019s Weekly Shonen Jump+ app on September 15, 2022. Seventeen tankobon volumes have been published in Japan as of April 2026, with an 18th volume set to be released on August 4, 2026. The series received an honorable mention at the 3rd LINE Manga Taisho.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">\u00a9 \u5343\u8449\u4f91\u751f\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e\u30fb\u5e7c\u7a1a\u5712WARS\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yen Press<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> licensed the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kindergarten Wars<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> manga for English release, describing the main synopsis as:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rita is Convict No. 999, a former legendary assassin who now works at a kindergarten for the children of the world\u2019s most powerful people. Her job is to protect the kids from the clutches of would-be assassins! But even with her overwhelming strength, Rita has one fatal flaw\u2014she falls head over heels for good-looking men, even if they\u2019re her enemies! Can she find the hottie soulmate of her dreams amid the chaos at the \u201cworld\u2019s safest kindergarten\u201d?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Sources<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/youchienwars\/status\/2070069499622203470\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kindergarten Wars Official Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youchienwars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Official Anime Website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-06-25\/kindergarten-wars-anime-casts-mirei-kumagai\/.238949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anime News Network<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice actress Mirei Kumagai is joining the voice cast of the upcoming Kindergarten Wars TV anime series. The anime will premiere in Japan in Spring 2027.\u00a0\u00a0 Kumagai will voice the teacher character Mac, who wears a yellow bear costume. She previously voiced Mimori Futaba from the Backflip!! anime series.\u00a0 She joins a previously announced voice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11622],"tags":[195,1027,2063,20885,20884,20883,1935,3313,1374],"class_list":["post-30610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animeplug","tag-anime","tag-cast","tag-joins","tag-kindergarten","tag-kumagai","tag-mirei","tag-series","tag-voice","tag-wars"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",0,0,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",0,0,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",0,0,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",300,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",1024,1024,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",1536,1536,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",2048,2048,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",370,265,false],"kava-thumb-s":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",150,85,false],"kava-thumb-s-2":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",230,230,false],"kava-thumb-m":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",400,400,false],"kava-thumb-m-vertical":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",370,500,false],"kava-thumb-m-2":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",570,450,false],"kava-thumb-l":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",1170,650,false],"kava-thumb-xl":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",1920,1080,false],"kava-thumb-masonry":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",600,999,false],"kava-thumb-justify":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",640,640,false],"kava-thumb-justify-2":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kindergarten-wars-mac-character-description-visual-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1",1280,640,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"#RiseCelestialStudios","author_link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/author\/ralph-c\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/category\/animeplug\/\" rel=\"category tag\">ANIME PLUG<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Voice actress Mirei Kumagai is joining the voice cast of the upcoming Kindergarten Wars TV anime series. 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