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Staff, and Kengo Takanashi leads the seven brothers' cast.","whyItMatters":"A late-arriving guest role announced days before the episode airs shows the production is still filling out its cast episode by episode, with the NHK E TV slot and Prime Video stream already running.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eSaturno arrives in episode six, airing Saturday on NHK Educational at 6:25 p.m. JST, with the Friday 7:00 p.m. rebroadcast and the Prime Video stream covering viewers outside Japan. The announcement came from the anime\u0026#39;s official X account, the same channel that has carried the show\u0026#39;s cast reveals.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe core seven brothers are voiced by Kengo Takanashi, Makoto Tanikawa, Haruki Ishiya, Satoshi Inomata, Kiyoto Mizuno, Taishi Murata and Reiji Kawashima, with Akeno Watanabe and Show Hayami also in the cast. Kiyoko Sayama directs at J.C. Staff, Shinzo Fujita writes and oversees scripts, and Yuriko Maeda designs characters.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Ryota Takeuchi's Saturno only appears in episode six, so the role is a single-episode spot inside a series J.C. Staff is already airing weekly on NHK Educational.","twitterPost":"Ryota Takeuchi's Saturno is an episode-six-only role, a one-week guest slot in a show J.C. Staff is already running weekly.","threadsPost":"Ryota Takeuchi joining The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom as Saturno is a single-episode role, since Saturno appears in episode six. That makes the casting a guest spot inside J.C. Staff's weekly NHK Educational run, not a recurring lead.","newsletterBlurb":"Ryota Takeuchi joins The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom as Saturno, a character who appears in the sixth episode on Saturday. The NHK Educational broadcast began October 3, and Prime Video streams the series with an English dub. 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