Okay, I'm sold. I've made a
characters/seiyuus page with pics of seven main characters and their seiyuus, as well as info about each seiyuu.
And the line-up is interesting. There is not just one 14-year-old seiyuu, but another who is 13. But young Morohoshi Sumire, who plays a character called Arisu, is not a newcomer like Kido Ibuki: she has acted in over 20 TV dramas and over 20 animes, as well as dubbing an even larger number of foreign TV shows and films. She currently has her first starring anime role, in
Aikatsu. Paku Romi once said that she was such a sensitive actress that the adult seiyuus on the set had to do their best just to keep up.
Chihara Minori (Ana), of course, is even more famous as a singer than as a seiyuu. And Shimoda Asami (Gimbei) is all over TV and radio (nickname: "Asa-pon"), has done a lot of stage plays, and her voice samples are used for the Vocaloid singers Rin and Len Kagamine. And that's not to mention Kitamura Eri (Arashi); or Takamoto Megumi (Akito's editor), who was Ushio in
Sasameki Koto and Saitohimea in
Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi.
The male lead, Kousaka Ryousuke, is 26 and got his big break as Yuki in
tsuritama, earlier this year. His road to the profession wasn't easy: he had wanted to be a seiyuu since he began high school, but after going up to Tokyo from his home in Tokushima and graduating from a community college in acting, then attending courses at an agency's seiyuu school, he apparently failed the final audition. Fortunately, the Early Wing agency had a special audition and they selected him from that.
Check out the
cowboybibimbop blog for more pics of Kido Ibuki (Akiko). Also see the
official site for the radio show that she and Asa-pon do. There's a nice little video of her there, showing her powerful voice. And there is another good photo on
this Japanese blog. She's not quite 15 (November 14) but she is clearly no shrinking violet.