Key Plus Words: AKB0048

The site for the upcoming AKB0048 anime has announced the nine members who will be voice actresses in the series.

9. Watanabe Mayu (AKB48, Team B)
8. Mita Mao (NMB48, Research student)
7. Ishida Haruka (AKB48, Team B)
6. Sato Sumire (AKB48, Team B)
5. Hata Sawako (SKE48, Team KII)
4. Nakaya Sayaka (AKB48, Team A)
3. Yagami Kumi (SKE48, Team S)
2. Iwata Karen (AKB48, Research student)
1. Sato Amina (AKB48, Team B)

Honorble mentions include Takeuchi Miyu (AKB48, Team 4), Murashige Anna (HKT48, First class), Kinoshita Momoka (NMB48, Research student), and Furukawa Airi (SKE48, Team KII).

The judging panel consisted of Akimoto Yasushi, Kawamori Shoji (from theMacross franchise), Otsuki Toshimichi (executive director for AKB0048) and sound director Aketagawa Jin.

AKB0048 will be airing with the Spring 2012 anime season.

Synopsis

In the beginning of the 21st century, a world war breaks out over interplanetary travel tech. The environment is pretty much destroyed so mankind leaves Earth and starts Star Calendar 00. Entertainment and songs become heavily regulated and eventually banned due to their power to move people, but a brave idol group puts on guerrilla performances in the name of a famous act from earlier times that sang to Earth's bitter end, AKB48. The illegal revival group's name is... AKB0048.