Minami-ke is returning to television in April 2027 with Minami-ke Korekara, the fifth anime series about the Minami sisters. Rina Sato, Marina Inoue and Minori Chihara return as Haruka, Kana and Chiaki, with a teaser revealing their next season. Check out the official post down below:
The Sisters Return With Their Familiar Cast
The announcement accompanied Minami-ke Special Event 2026, with a teaser visual, promotional video, character images and production credits released together. The new illustration places Chiaki, Kana and Haruka in the foreground as the three sisters jump in the same direction.
The fifth series follows television adaptations broadcast in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2013. Its April 2027 debut will bring the franchise back fourteen years after the fourth television season, continuing the adaptation of Koharu Sakuraba's everyday-life comedy.
The sequel's production was first announced in 2024. An event at Tokyo's Theater Mixa revealed the Korekara subtitle last year, before the new event supplied the broadcast month and the larger cast and staff announcement.
Sato voices responsible eldest sister Haruka, while Inoue returns as energetic middle sister Kana. Chihara plays youngest sister Chiaki, whose sleepy manner accompanies the sharp comments she directs at the people around her. The official introduction again places school, homework, meals and leisure at the center of their lives.
Nana Mizuki returns as Toma Minami. The ensemble also includes Rika Morinaga as Makoto, Tetsuya Kakihara as Fujioka and Daisuke Ono as Hosaka. Aki Toyosaki voices Yoshino, Eri Kitamura plays Uchida, and Momoko Ohara returns as Shuichi.
The cast list extends to Saori Goto as Keiko, Ao Takahashi as Riko and Yoshino Nanjo as Miyuki. Other returning names include Reiko Takagi as Maki, Ryoko Ono as Atsuko, Ayaka Saito as Hitomi and Saeko Chiba as Hayami.
LIDENFILMS Produces The Fifth Series
Junichi Kitamura directs Korekara, with Takamitsu Kono handling series composition. Nobuhiro Ando supplies the character designs, and LIDENFILMS is responsible for the animation production.
The new staff announcement also names Masaru Sato and Midori Kikuchi as art directors, Saki Kurata for color design and Yuki Tsuchimoto as director of photography. Those credits accompany the returning voice cast and the first batch of character images.
Yasunori Ebina continues as sound director, while Yasuhiro Misawa returns for the music. The rights-holder's announcement identifies both as continuing participants from the earlier Minami-ke adaptations, linking the new production with the series' established sound.
The remaining Minami family roles include Tatsuya Hayama as Akira, Hiroyuki Yoshino as Natsuki and Shinji Kawada as Haruo. Shintaro Asanuma voices Takeru, adding another familiar member of the ensemble to the new season's cast list.
The released teaser is available through Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures' official Showgate YouTube channel. The announcement retains the series' familiar caution that the story plainly depicts the sisters' everyday lives and asks viewers not to expect too much.
The rights-holder's description of the teaser begins at the Minami apartment with Haruka calling that dinner is ready. It also describes Kana and Chiaki arguing, appearances by the sisters' school friends and the other Minami household, bringing several parts of the established ensemble into the first promotional video.
The Manga Has Passed Five Million Copies
Sakuraba's manga began in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine in 2004. The publisher's new announcement lists 29 collected volumes currently available and reports that the series has passed five million copies in circulation.
The new character page identifies Haruka as a second-year high-school student who handles the household's cooking and other domestic work. Despite strong academic and athletic abilities, she attends a nearby school so she can continue looking after Kana and Chiaki.
Kana is in her second year of middle school and struggles with early mornings and housework, particularly cooking. Chiaki is in fifth grade, enjoys reading and studies with the aim of entering a better middle school than Kana. Swimming is one of her difficulties.
The supporting characters bring their own connections to the sisters. Fujioka plays soccer and has feelings for Kana, while Hosaka captains the boys' volleyball team and wants Haruka to become its manager. Toma belongs to the other Minami household and is in Chiaki's school year.
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