Angel Beats! -1st beat- cast announced

Today Key published the cast list for the upcoming first volume of the Angel Beats visual novel series, -1st beat-, which is currently set to release at the end of May (2015-05-29). All cast members appear to be the same as those used for the anime.

Here’s the full list:
Yuzuru Otonashi: Hiroshi Kamiya
Yuri “Yurippe” Nakamura: Harumi Sakurai
Kanade “Tenshi” Tachibana: Kana Hanazawa
Yui: Eri Kitamura
Masami Iwasawa: Miyuki Sawashiro
Matsushita: Eiichirou Tokumoto
Hideki Hinata: Ryouhei Kimura
Ayato Naoi: Megumi Ogata
Miyuki Irie: Kana Asumi
Shiori Sekine: Emiri Katou
Takamatsu: Takahiro Mizushima
Noda: Shun Takagi
Eri Shiina: Fuko Saito
Yusa: Yui Makino
Fujimaki: Yuuki Masuda
TK: Michael Rivas
Ooyama: Yumiko Kobayashi
Takeyama: Mitsuhiro Ichiki
Chaa: Hiroki Touchi

Angels Beats first featured as a 13-episode anime series, with the story written by Jun Maeda. It was later followed by an OVA and another OVA is expected this year. First rumors about a visual novel appeared as early as 2010 but it wasn’t officially confirmed until September 2013. The story takes place at a high school in the afterlife, where a select group calling theirselves the “Afterlife Battlefront” take up their fight against God.