SoniAni: Super Sonico the Animation

SoniAni: Super Sonico the Animation is a 2014 anime series based on a 4-koma manga series with the same name written and illustrated by Chika Nonohara. It started serializing in Earth Star Entertainment's Comic Earth Star magazine on March 12, 2011.

The anime series was announced at the Nitro Super Sonic 2013 event held at the Tokyo International Forum.^[1]^[2] It was animated by White Fox, directed by Kenichi Kawamura, and aired in Japan from January 6, 2014 to March 24, 2014, consisting of 12 episodes.

Sentai Filmworks licensed and produced an English Dub for the series. It premiered on the DVD & Blu-Ray release of the series on May 26, 2015.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Synopsis
Super Sonico is already a photoshoot model, game character, and a musician, even as she studies as a college student. She is also part of a three-piece girl band named "Daiichi Uchū Sokudo" (Fastest Speed in Space) as the vocalist and guitarist. (The band performs the anime's ending theme song.)

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Super Sonico	Ayano Yamamoto	Jessica Nigri
	Suzu Fujimi	Mai Gotō	Luci Christian
	Fūri Watanuki	Mami Ozaki	Monica Rial
Secondary Characters
	Manager Kitamura	Ryōta Takeuchi	David Wald
	Leila	Kikuko Inoue	Joanne Bonasso
	Tomi	Toshihide Tsuchiya	John Swasey
	Yasu	Masayuki Katō	Jay Hickman
	Kuni	Kōichi Sakaguchi	Mark X. Laskowski
Recurring Characters
	Yumi	Yū Ayase	Carli Mosier
	Emi	Emiko Takeuchi	Margaret McDonald
	Ōka Satsurikuin	Hisako Kanemoto	Kira Vincent-Davis
	Byte	Rina Honnizumi	Emily Neves
	Music Club Leader	Asami Yano	Regina Chen
	Manager of SuperNova	Kanae Oki	Beth Lazarou
	Arco	Kanae Oki	Brittany Deans
	Ayaka	Emiko Takeuchi	Juliet Simmons
	Ayaka's Mother	Asami Yano	Allison Sumrall

Episodic Characters[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Ep(s).
Kuwasaki	Shinji Kawada	John Gremillion	1
Shimoura	Manabu Sakamaki	Blake Shepard
Neighbor	Uko Tachibana	Katelyn Barr
Client	Rina Honnizumi	Christina Stroup	2
Photographer	Hiroko Ushida	Molly Searcy	2, 5, 12
Adachi	Asami Yano	Annie Mai	3
Endo	Tarusuke Shingaki	Ned Gayle
Kakazu	Kenta Miyake	Kyle C. Jones
Ikehata	Yū Ayase	Maggie Flecknoe
Satō		Nick Mills
Suzuki		Mark X. Laskowski
Kyōko Tomano	Shizuka Itō	Molly Searcy	4
Aya		Christina Stroup
Kyōko's Mother		Meaghan Avocato
Female Students	Asami Yano	Katelyn Barr Juliet Simmons
	Emiko Takeuchi
	Rina Honnizumi
Izumida		Nick Mills	5
Hibiki Komatsuri	Rie Murakawa	Allison Sumrall	5, 12
Yūko Masumura	Asami Yano	Juliet Simmons
Sayaka Kinomoto	Megumi Toyoguchi	Maggie Flecknoe
Kabuko Jōjōji	Atsuko Tanaka	Courtney Lomelo	6
Kayono Sakura	Ryōka Yuzuki	Katelyn Barr	7
Satsuki Imori	Mikako Takahashi	Meaghan Avocato
Proprietress	Satowa Tanaka	Christina Stroup
Daughter	Emiko Takeuchi	Terri Doty
Mother	Yū Ayase	Margaret McDonald
Mina	Yui Makino	Brittany Djie	8, 12
Ena Fujimi	Yui Sakakibara	Hilary Haag	8, 12
Shinozaki	Yū Ayase	Maggie Flecknoe	10
Ayaka's Father	Mitsuru Ogata	John Gremillion	11
Rallied Shop Owners	Isamu Yūsen	Blake Shepard Cameron Davis Joel McCray Kyle C. Jones Luke Patterson Ned Gayle Nick Mills Ricardo Contreras Scott Gibbs Son Phan Le
	Yūta Odagaki
	Yoshiki Nakajima
	Ryōsuke Morita
	Wataru Komada
	Kanae Oki