Get ready to meet the seven siblings of the Shiunji family one by one! For the next seven days, the upcoming anime adaptation of The Shiunji Family Children will release a new piece of art depicting one of the show’s leads.Today we get a look at eldest daughter Banri Shiunji, voiced by Chika Anzai (Reina Kosaka in Sound! Euphonium).
Ryoki Kamitsubo (Hidamari Sketch) directs The Shiunji Family Children at Doga Kobo with Noboru Kimura (Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture) on series composition and Miki Muto (some episodes of Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie) handling character designs and chief animation direction. The series is set to premiere in 2025.The Shiunji Family Children is written and drawn by Reiji Miyajima with illustration support from Reiji Yukino. The series has been published in the semi-monthly magazine Young Animal since February 25, 2022, with the fourth collected volume released in Japan on July 17, 2024. Yen Press publishes the series in English, describing the story as such:
The love between brother and sister. The love between man and woman. That which is most forbidden is most unyielding. The two sons and five daughters of the Shiunji family shine like brilliant gems, each with intelligence and beauty in equal measure. And with the pedigree of their wealthy father behind them, how could they not be the talk of the town? Eldest son Arata has spent his life being tossed around by the whims of his colorful sisters, yet a little teasing won’t stop him from valuing his family over anything and anyone else. But when his youngest sister turns fifteen, their father reveals a long-hidden secret of the Shiunji “siblings” and knocks Arata’s world off its axis…
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