The official Twitter/X account and website of the upcoming Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring TV anime series confirmed the addition of Kana Hanazawa and Nao Toyama to the voice cast. The anime will premiere in Japan on March 28, 2026.
Hanazawa (left) will voice the character Kobai Yukiyanagi, while Toyama will voice Nazuna (right).
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They join a main voice cast that stars:
- • Yuka Nukui as the Agent of Spring Hinagiku Kayo
- • Yoshino Aoyama as the Guard of Spring Sakura Himedaka
- • Sumire Uesaka as the Agent of Summer Ruri Hazakura
- • Ranko Baba as the Guard of Summer Ayame Hazakura
- • Hime Sawada as the Agent of Autumn Nadeshiko Iwaizuki
- • Taku Yashiro as the Guard of Autumn Rindo Azami
- • Shogo Sakata as the Agent of Winter Rosei Kantsubaki
- • Satoshi Hino as the Guard of Winter Itecho Kanbatsu
Ken Yamamoto (Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era and Pokémon: Hisuian Snow director, storyboard artist and unit director for Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister’s first ending and second opening) is directing the anime series, with Ayumu Hisao (I’m in Love with the Villainess) as series composer, Namiko Torii (The Girl from the Other Side [2022] co-main animator, “Moonbath” music video character designer) as character designer, and Kensuke Ushio (Journal with Witch, Chainsaw Man) as music composer. WIT STUDIO is in charge of the animation production.
Other staff includes Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Dororo and Spy x Family Season 1 director, Spy x Family Season 2 co-director) as animation advisor, Satomi Maiya (The Girl from the Other Side [short and film] co-director) and Yutaro Kubo (The Girl from the Other Side [short and film] co-director) as visual developers and image board artists, Bamboo’s Yusuke Takeda (Vinland Saga) as background art director, WIT STUDIO’s Ayaka Nakamura (Ride Your Wave) as color designer, Graphinica Sapporo Studio’s Keisuke Nozawa (Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-) as composting director, Tohokushinsha’s Eriko Kimura (The Colors Within, Inu-Oh) as sound director, and Jo Otani (Isekai Suicide Squad, Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-) as animation producer.
The anime is based on the Agents of the Four Seasons fantasy adventure light novel series written by Kana Akatsuki (Violet Evergarden) and illustrated by Suoh. The light novels’ first, two-parter volume shares the anime’s Dance of Spring subtitle. The light novels were first published under ASCII Media Work’s Dengeki Bunko imprint on April 9, 2021 and has released eight volumes (two-parters included) as of December 2024.
A manga adaptation by Nappa Komatsuda was released in July 2022 and another spinoff manga by Yuriko Asami titled Agents of the Four Seasons: One Hundred Songs and One Hundred Pages was launched in May 2023. The spinoff manga is published digitally in English on the BookWalker website.
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Yen Press licensed the Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring light novels and manga for English release. It describes the first volume of the light novels as:
Winter was once the only season in the world-but such an existence was too lonely to bear, and so it created Spring to love. Before long, the earth wished for more time to rest in the cycle, and Summer and Autumn were born. The ones who carry the cycle are called the Agents of the Four Seasons. Hinagiku, the Agent of Spring, disappeared from this land ten years ago, taking the season of spring with her. Now, after incredible hardship, she has returned to restore the cycle to its proper state-and, as in the myth passed down since the dawn of time, she sends her love to Winter.
Sources: Agents of the Four Seasons Official Twitter, Official Anime Website, Anime News Network
