The Ranma ½ livestream on the anime's official X revealed on Wednesday the production staff, cast, key visual (pictured), opening theme, and the first promotional video. The new anime is scheduled to premiere on October 6 at 12:55 a.m. on NTV.

Staff
Director, Sound Director: Kounosuke Uda (One Piece)
Series Composition: Kimiko Ueno (Dungeon Meshi)
Character Design: Hiromi Taniguchi (Youjo Senki sub-character design)
Chief Animation Director: Hiromi Taniguchi, Takeshi Yoshioka (Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai), Yoshiko Saitou (Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu), Nao Ootsu (Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi)
Main Animator: Nao Naitou (Spriggan (ONA) chief animation director), Rie Aoki (Chainsaw Man animation director)
POP Artwork: Minami Kitamura
Art Director: Chihiro Ookawa (Vanitas no Karte background art)
Color Design: Yukiko Kakita (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)
Director of Photography: Atsushi Kanou (Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi)
Editing: Keisuke Yanagi (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa (Vinland Saga)
Music Selection: Makiko Kayahara (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal)
Sound Production: dugout
Music: Kaoru Wada (InuYasha)
Planning, Production: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Studio: MAPPA

Cast
Ranma Saotome: Kappei Yamaguchi (Death Note), Megumi Hayashibara (Shinseiki Evangelion)
Akane Tendou: Noriko Hidaka (InuYasha)
Nabiki Tendou: Minami Takayama (Meitantei Conan)
Kasumi Tendou: Kikuko Inoue (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
Soun Tendou: Akio Ootsuka (Vinland Saga) NEW
Genma Saotome: Cho (One Piece) NEW
Ryouga Hibiki: Kouichi Yamadera (Cowboy Bebop)
Shampoo: Rei Sakuma (Majo no Takkyuubin)
Narration: Kenichi Ogata (Ranma ½) NEW

Note: New cast replacing the cast of the original anime series are denoted with the legend NEW.

Singer-songwriter ano (Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction, Chainsaw Man) will perform the opening theme.

The new anime adapts Rumiko Takahashi's romantic comedy manga, which serialized in Weekly Shounen Sunday from August 1987 to February 1996. Shogakukan published the manga in 38 volumes from April 1988 to June 1996 and later released it in two new editions in 2002–2003 and 2016–2018.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English and released 21 volumes from May 1993 to March 2003. In May 2003, the company began publishing a second edition and released the 36th and final volume in November 2006. VIZ Media also released a 2-in-1 omnibus edition between March 2014 and March 2017.

Studio Deen adapted the manga into a television anime that aired in 161 episodes from April 1989 to September 1992. The manga also received multiple movies and original video anime over the years, with the latest installment, Ranma ½: Akumu! Shunmin Kou, released in 2008.

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Source: animate Times