{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-23T20:26:18.815Z","story":{"id":"r_107da086e2e34abc8bc0d942","slug":"iron-wok-jan-anime-adds-five-cast-members-sets-july-5-premiere","url":"https://yomimono.id/iron-wok-jan-anime-adds-five-cast-members-sets-july-5-premiere","headline":"Iron Wok Jan! Anime Adds Five Cast Members, Sets July 5 Premiere","summary":"The television anime adaptation of Shinji Saijyo's cooking manga \"Iron Wok Jan!\" has revealed five new cast members, a July 5 premiere date, and a main promotional video. The seven-member dance vocal group Genin wa Jibun ni Aru. performs the opening theme song \"Hien\" (Fire Banquet). New cast additions include Masuo Amada as Nichido Otani, M.A.O as Celene Yang, Takahiro Sakurai as Kei Sawada, Taishi Murata as Tomohide Jun, and Yusuke Kobayashi as Yuji Kawahara. Previously announced lead cast members are Kikunosuke Toya as Jan Akiyama, Ikumi Hasegawa as Kiriko Gobancho, Kohei Amasaki as Takao Okonogi, and Kenjiro Tsuda as narrator. Ei Aoki (Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero) directs the series at studio TROYCA, with Makoto Uezu handling series scripts and Masako Matsumoto designing characters. The anime will air Sundays at 5:30 p.m. JST on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. The original manga ran in Weekly Shonen Champion from 1995 to 2000 across 27 volumes, and the franchise has over 10 million copies in circulation.","why_it_matters":"The July 5 premiere date and full cast reveal confirm that the adaptation of a long-dormant 1990s cooking manga is on track for a summer 2026 release, giving TROYCA its second consecutive anime season after the studio's recent projects.","published_at":"2026-05-17T14:31:06.000Z","source_count":2,"sources":["Anime News Network","The Fandom Post"],"citations":[{"source":"Anime News Network","title":"Iron Wok Jan! Anime Reveals More Cast, July 5 Debut in Main Promo Video","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-05-15/iron-wok-jan-anime-reveals-more-cast-july-5-debut-in-main-promo-video/.237389"},{"source":"The Fandom Post","title":"'Iron Wok Jan!' Anime Expands Cast With New Full Promo","url":"https://www.fandompost.com/2026/05/15/iron-wok-jan-anime-expands-cast-with-new-full-promo/"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":["Iron Wok Jan!"],"manga_titles":["Iron Wok Jan!"],"studios":["Kadokawa"],"people":["Shinji Saijyo","M.A.O","Taishi Murata"],"type":"announcement","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false}}}