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Bloom Into You English Dub Stars Tia Ballard, Luci Christian

HIDIVE debuted the first episode of the English dub for the television anime of Nio Nakatani's Bloom Into You (Yagate Kimi ni Naru) yuri manga on Friday and announced the English dub cast. The streaming service's official Twitter account streamed a preview clip on Thursday.

David Wald is directing the dub with scriptwriter Marissa Lenti and audio engineers Brent Marshall and Patrick Marrero. The cast includes:

• Tia Ballard as Yuu
• Luci Christian as Touko
• Shanae'a Moore as Sayaka
• Amber Lee Connors as Akari
• Brittney Karbowski as Koyomi
• Clint Bickham as Maki
• Adam Gibbs as Kuse

The show premiered on Friday, October 5 on AT-X, Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, TVQ Kyushu, and BS11. HIDIVE is streaming the series with English subtitles as it airs in Japan. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime.

HIDIVE describes the story:

Yuu loves shoujo manga and waits for a love confession to make her feel like a character from her favorite stories but when a classmate admits his feelings, she feels nothing. Time passes and Yuu begins high school feeling lost and confused. Things begin to look up when she witnesses Nanami, the beautiful student council president, effortlessly turn down a boy. Yuu reaches out to Nanami for help and the two quickly become friends. Yuu's heart is suddenly sent aflutter when the next person to confess their feelings is Nanami! Is Yuu's own shoujo romance finally beginning?

Makoto Katō (Beautiful Bones -Sakurako's Investigation-) is directing the anime at TROYCA (Aldnoah.Zero, Re:CREATORS). Jukki Hanada (Sound! Euphonium, Love Live!, A Place Further Than the Universe) is supervising and writing the scripts. Hiroaki Gohda (Amagami SS, Love, Election and Chocolate) is designing the characters. Michiru Oshima (Fullmetal Alchemist, Little Witch Academia, Night is Short, Walk On Girl) is composing the music.

Sources: HIDIVE website, Twitter account