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**Chio's School Road** (ちおちゃんの通学路, *Chio-chan no Tsūgakuro*, lit. *Chio's Commute to School*) is a Japanese anime series adaped from a manga series written and illustrated by Tadataka Kawasaki. It ran for 12 episodes from July 6, 2018 – September 21, 2018 and was broadcast on Tokyo MX, GBS, Mie TV, Sun TV, KBS, and BS11. It was originally scheduled to premiere in April 2018, but was pushed to July. The series was simulcast streamed on Crunchyroll with English subtitles for its premium subscribers and released with a week delay for free viewers, and by Funimation with an English dub.

It is directed and written by Takayuki Inagaki at Diomedéa, with character designs by Mayuko Matsumoto. The series' opening theme is *Danger in my Tsūgakuro* (*Danger in my 通学路*) by Chio Miyamo (CV: Naomi Ōzora), Manana Nonomura (CV: Chiaki Omigawa), and Yuki Hosokawa (CV: Kaede Hondo), and the ending theme is *Nanairoad* (*ナナイロード*) by Chio Miyamo (CV: Naomi Ōzora) & Manana Nonomura (CV: Chiaki Omigawa).

## Cast

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### Japanese

Main
* Chio Miyamo ("Bloody Butterfly") portrayed by Naomi Ōzora
* Manana Nonomura (Chio's best and childhood friend) portrayed by Chiaki Omigawa

Supporting
* Yuki Hosokawa (Chio and Manana's good friend) portrayed by Kaede Hondo
* Madoka Kushitori (captain of the Kabaddi Club; senpai) portrayed by Yō Taichi
* Momo Shinozuka (public moral committee member) portrayed by Minori Suzuki
* Gotō-sensei (teacher and gate monitor) portrayed by Hiroki Takahashi
* Mayuta Andō (former gangster) portrayed by Rikiya Koyama
* Chiharu Andō (Mayuta's little sister) portrayed by Saya Aizawa

More supporting characters

* Chio's mother portrayed by Risa Hayamizu
* Chop portrayed by Rikiya Koyama
* Setoyama-senpai portrayed by Yukana
* Toshio Ushida portrayed by Nobuo Tobita
* Takkun portrayed by Minami Shinoda
* Takkun's Mama portrayed by Yuko Minaguchi
* Ando's subordinate
* Kensuke Makiyama portrayed by Shōta Ebina
* Makiyama's girlfriend portrayed by Larissa Tago Takeda
* Fuyumi Nojo portrayed by Ikumi Hasegawa

### English dub

Main
* Chio Miyamo ("Bloody Butterfly") portrayed by Mikaela Krantz
* Manana Nonomura (Chio's best and childhood friend) portrayed by Emily Fajardo

Supporting
* Yuki Hosokawa (Chio and Manana's good friend) portrayed by Kristin Sutton
* Madoka Kushitori (captain of the Kabaddi Club; senpai) portrayed by Marissa Lenti
* Momo Shinozuka (public moral committee member) portrayed by Kristi Rothrock
* Gotō-sensei (teacher and gate monitor) portrayed by Robert McCollum
* Mayuta Andō (former gangster) portrayed by Marcus D. Stimac
* Chiharu Andō (Mayuta's little sister) portrayed by Alison Viktorin

## Crew

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* Director: Takayuki Inagaki
* Series Composition: Takayuki Inagaki
* Script: Takayuki Inagaki (eps 1-12)
* Music:
	+ Audio Highs
	+ Tomotaka Ohsumi
* Character Design: Mayuko Matsumoto
* Art Director:
	+ Masakazu Miyake
	+ Yuri Sanan
* Animation Director: Tsuyoshi Kimura (ep 11)
* Sound Director: Takayuki Yamaguchi
* Director of Photography: Hayato Kifune
* Color design: Yumika Ogawa
* Editing: Yūji Oka
* Music producer: Gō Wakabayashi
* Sound Effects: Yasuyuki Konno
* Sound Effects Assistant: Yui Ando
* Sound Production Manager: Yoshinori Kusumi
* Theme Song Performance:
	+ Chiaki Omigawa (OP; ED)
	+ Kaede Hondo (OP)
	+ Naomi Ōzora (OP; ED)

## Episodes

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*All English titles are taken from Crunchyroll...*
Start dates are from Tokyo MX

## References

1. ↑ *ChioChan.jp* - Story, accessed April 6, 2021

## External links

Official
* Official anime website (in Japanese)

General
* *Chio's School Road*
* *Chio's School Road*

Anime
* *Chio's School Road (TV)*
* *Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro*

News
* *Anime News Network* - Anime Spotlight - Chio's School Road by ANN Staff, Jun 27th 2018
* *Crunchyroll News* - Trekking the Teenage Wasteland: Remembering Chio's School Road by Paul Chapman July 26, 2019 1:00pm MST