A special live broadcast for the upcoming anime Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (Hoshi no Samidare) on April 16, 2022, unveiled a new key visual ahead of the July 2022 premiere. The announcement also revealed all 27 cast members for the anime.

The new cast members are:

• Chinatsu Hirose as Sorano Hanako
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Shimako Hyo
• Nagisa Kakegawa as Coo Ritter
• Hyosei as Shea Moon
• Ruriko Aoki as Kiru Sonne
• Mutsumi Tamura as Akane Taiyo
• Azusa Tadakoro as Asahina Samidare
• Katsuji Mori as Ron Yue
• Manabu Muraji as Ron Yue
• Kazuhiro Yamaji as Akitani Inachika
• Tetsuei Sumiya as Zan Amaru
• M•A•O as Anima
• Tatsumaru Tachibana as Animus
• Gen Sato as Mikazuki Shinonome
• Shuhei Iwase as Hangetsu Shinonome
• Tetsu Inada as Soichiro Nagumo
• Aya Suzaki as Yayoi Hakudo
• Shoya Ishige as Ludo Shubarie
• Kentaro Kamugai as Dance Dark
• Kazutomi Yamamoto as Lance Lumiere
• Mitsuo Iwata as Lee Soleil

The previously announced main cast includes:

• Junya Enoki as Yuhi Amamiya
• Naomi Ohzora as Samidare Asahina
• Kenjiro Tsuda as Noi Crezant
• Azusa Tadokoro as Hisame Asahina

Nobuaki Nakanishi will be directing the series. Original author Satoshi Mizukami and Yuichiro Momose will serve as series composers. The studio in charge of animating the series has not been revealed yet.

According to Mizukami, the anime will be adapting the entire manga. The official Twitter account for the anime also revealed the franchise will release another “interesting project immediately” after the series.

Mizukami’s Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer manga was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha’s seinen magazine, Young King OURs, in April 2005, with the final volume of the series published in Nov 2010. Seven Seas Entertainment published and distributed the series in North America.

Mizukami is also the author of Spirit Circle and is currently working on the TV anime Planet With. A manga was launched for the latter series by Mizukami in Young King OURs on April 28, 2018, and an anime television series by J.C.Staff premiered on July 8, 2018. As of July 2021, the manga has entered its final arc.

Source: Comic Natalie, Twitter