Image source: Press release, Comic Natalie — via Anime News Network
Kadokawa unveiled the first main promotional video and first main visual for the anime of Keiko Shibata's Pan Dorobō (Bread Thief) picture book on Tuesday. The video announces more cast and staff members, and also announces and previews the anime's opening theme song "Pan Dorobō no Uta" (Pan Dorobō Song) by last cast member Ayaka Asai and Junichi Suwabe.
The newly announced cast members are:
Aki Toyosaki as Nise Pan Dorobō
Junichi Suwabe as Panya no Ojisan
The new staff members include:
The picture books center on a piece of bread that also steals bread from bakeries in the city.
Ayaka Asai stars as Pan Dorobō.
Takahiko Kyōgoku (Love Live! School idol project, Love Live! Superstar!!, GATE) is directing the anime at Shin-Ei Animation, and Chie Yamashiro (Hunter × Hunter, Parasyte -the maxim-, Prince of Stride: Alternative) is the assistant director. MakoMiyako (You and I Are Polar Opposites) is designing the characters, and Mariko Mochizuki (Somali and the Forest Spirit) is in charge of series scripts. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu will perform the anime's ending theme song "Pan Dorobо̄."
The anime will premiere in October.
Shibata published the first picture book in theseries in April 2020. The seventh picture book, Pan Dorobō to Sweets Ōji (Bread Thief andthe Old Sweets Man), shipped on September 10.
The book series has 4.5 millioncopies in circulation and has won numerous awards including the 11th LIBRO Picture Book Prize.
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