The “Minami-ke Special Event 2026″ debuted the teaser promotional video, teaser visual, and character visuals for Minami-ke: Korekara (Minami-ke: Going Forward), the new sequel television anime series based on Coharu Sakuraba‘s Minami-ke manga, on Sunday. The teaser video announces the new series’ returning cast, staff, and April 2027 premiere.
©桜場コハル・講談社/「みなみけ これから」製作委員会
©桜場コハル・講談社/「みなみけ これから」製作委員会
The returning cast members are:
- Rina Satō as Haruka Minami
- Marina Inoue as Kana Minami
- Minori Chihara as Chiaki Minami
- Nana Mizuki as Tōma Minami
- Rika Morinaga as Makoto/Mako-chan
- Tetsuya Kakihara as Fujioka
- Daisuke Ono as Hosaka
- Aki Toyosaki as Yoshino
- Eri Kitamura as Yuka Uchida
- Momoko Ohara as Shūichi
- Saori Gotō as Keiko
- Ao Takahashi as Riko
- Yoshino Nanjō as Miyuki
- Tatsuya Hayama as Akira Minami
- Reiko Takagi as Maki
- Ryōko Ono as Atsuko
- Ayaka Saitō as Hitomi
- Saeko Chiba as Hayami
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Natsuki Minami
- Shinji Kawada as Haruo Minami
- Shintarō Asanuma as Takeru
Jun’ichi Kitamura (Catch Me at the Ballpark!, Fluffy Paradise; episode director for Cells at Work! Code Black) is directing the new anime at LIDEN FILMS. Takamitsu Kōno is returning from previous Minami-ke series to oversee the series scripts, Nobuhiro Andō (Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring, Hell’s Paradise, My Deer Friend Nokotan episode animation director) is designing the characters, Masaru Satō (Case Closed: The Bride of Halloween, Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire films, Komi Can’t Communicate) and Midori Kikuchi (Beheneko: The Elf-Girl’s Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! assistant art director) are the art directors.
The other staff members include:
- Color Key Artist: Saki Kurata
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yūki Tsuchimoto
- Sound Director: Yasunori Ebina (returning)
- Sound Effects: Naoto Yamaya (returning)
- Music: Yasuhiro Misawa (returning)
The “Mixa Animation Diary ‘Minami-ke‘ 20th Anniversary Tanabata Festival” first announced the new Minami-ke anime in July 2024. Another event announced its “Korekara” subtitle in November 2025. The new anime will be the fifth television anime in the franchise, and the first new television anime in the franchise in at least 14 years, as the last anime series aired in 2013.
Sakuraba launched the ongoing Minami-ke manga in Kodansha‘s Weekly Young Magazine in 2004. Kodansha published the manga’s 29th compiled book volume on Friday.
The manga inspired four television anime in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2013, as well as three OVAs in 2009, 2012, and 2013.
The franchise centers on the three sisters of the Minami household: Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki. They live an average life, but they only have each other to depend on.
Sakuraba’s Kyo no Gononi manga similarly inspired an OVA in 2006 and a television anime in 2008, as well as a separate 2009 OVA.
Source: Press release
