Minami-ke: Korekara Season 5 Premieres April 2027, Returning After 14 Years

Minami-ke will return with its fifth TV anime season, Minami-ke: Korekara, in April 2027. The new season will be the franchise's first since Season 4 aired in 2013, ending a 14-year gap. A teaser visual, teaser promotional video, and new scene stills have also been released, with the cast from the previous anime seasons returning.

Minami-ke: Korekara Brings Back the Previous Anime Cast

The teaser PV opens at the familiar Minami family apartment with Haruka saying that dinner will be ready soon. It also features Kana and Chiaki clashing, friends from each sister's school, the other Minami family, and the familiar voices of characters returning from previous seasons.

Rina Sato returns as eldest sister Haruka Minami, Marina Inoue as second sister Kana Minami, and Minori Chihara as youngest sister Chiaki Minami. The other characters will also be voiced by returning cast members from the previous anime series.

The cast includes Nana Mizuki as Toma Minami, Rika Morinaga as Makoto (Mako-chan), Tetsuya Kakihara as Fujioka, Daisuke Ono as Hosaka, Aki Toyosaki as Yoshino, Eri Kitamura as Uchida, Momoko Ohara as Shuichi, Saori Goto as Keiko, Ao Takahashi as Riko, Yoshino Nanjo as Miyuki, Tatsuya Hayama as Akira Minami, Reiko Takagi as Maki, Ryoko Ono as Atsuko, Ayaka Saito as Hitomi, Saeko Chiba as Hayami, Hiroyuki Yoshino as Natsuki Minami, Shinji Kawada as Haruo Minami, and Shintaro Asanuma as Takeru.

Junichi Kitamura is directing the new season, with Takamitsu Kono handling series composition and Nobuhiro Ando serving as character designer. Masaru Sato and Midori Kikuchi are the art directors, Saki Kurata is responsible for color design, and Yuki Tsuchimoto serves as director of photography. Yasunori Ebina returns as sound director, Naoto Yamaya handles sound effects, and Yasuhiro Misawa returns to compose the music. LIDENFILMS is producing the animation.

Introduction

Minami-ke follows the ordinary daily lives of the three Minami sisters: troublemaking second sister Kana, sharp-tongued youngest sister Chiaki, and dependable eldest sister Haruka.

The original manga by Koharu Sakuraba has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine since 2004 and has surpassed 5 million copies in circulation.

The first TV anime season aired in 2007, followed by Season 2 in 2008, Season 3 in 2009, and Season 4 in 2013. Minami-ke: Korekara marks the first new TV season in 14 years.

Source : ORICON NEWS