The official Twitter/X account for the ongoing Let’s Go Karaoke! TV anime series announced the addition of four more new cast members. The anime series first premiered in Japan on July 24, 2025.
The four additional cast will all play yakuza in the show and will appear in the fourth episode, which will air on August 14, 2025. They include:
- • Taichi Takeda as Sake Allergy
- • Shohei Kajikawa as Former No. 4
- • Takumu Miyazono as Nakibokuro
- • Soungdok as Gura-san
They join a main voice cast that stars Shun Horie as Satomi Oka, Daisuke Ono as Kyoji Narita, and Shinnosuke Tokudome as Wada.
Asami Nakatani (Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirage) is directing the Let’s Go Karaoke! anime adaptation, with Yoshimi Narita (Twilight Out of Focus, Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie) as series screenwriter, Yukiko Tsukahara (Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Episode 9 co-director) as assistant director, Mai Matsuura (The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians, King of Prism by Pretty Rhythm) as character designer, and Takuro Iga (OSHI NO KO) as music composer. Doga Kobo is handling the animation production.
The same staff is also working on the Captivated, by You anime adaptation, which will premiere in Japan on August 21, 2025.
Let’s Go Karaoke! and Captivated, by You are both single volume manga titles created by Yama Wayama. They were published under Enterbrain’s Beam Comics imprint, after originally being released as doujin works. Yen Press releases both manga in English for North America.
Let’s Go Karaoke! debuted as a doujin on August 25, 2019 and was later released by Enterbrain on September 12, 2020. It inspired a one-shot manga sequel in November 2020 and a live-action film in January 2024.
Crunchyroll is streaming Let’s Go Karaoke! and will later stream Captivated, by You. It describes the main synopsis of the former as:
The president of the chorus club, Satomi Oka, is approached by a yakuza named Kyoji Narita. Kyoji’s yakuza group holds a customary karaoke competition, and whoever earns the title of worst singer must get a tattoo. Since he was asked to be Kyoji’s singing teacher, Satomi has no choice but to go along with these practice sessions. Brought together by karaoke, where will Satomi and Kyoji end up?
Sources: Let’s Go Karaoke! Official Twitter, Anime News Network
