As revealed on Friday, Fuyu Azuma’s Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota manga is getting an anime. The first cast and staff details are in for the upcoming adaptation, which is slated to debut sometime this year.
Tomohiro Kamitani (MIX Season 2) dircts, with Michiko Yokote (Cowboy Bebop) overseeing scripts, Naoto Nakamura (A Certain Magical Index II) as character designer and chief animation director and Yukari Hashimoto and Tetsuya Shitara composing music for the STUDIO POLON production.
The main cast includes Akane Fujita as Kashiwada-san, Kyohei Natsume as Ota-kun, Yuya Hirose as Tadakoro-kun and Sohei Horikane as Sata-kun. Check out the announcement trailer and visual below.
Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota Trailer
Fuyu Azuma also whipped up a celebratory illustration:
The manga—which started in July 2018, with the final collected volume hitting stands in Japan in July 2023—is available in English through BookWalker Global and MangaPlaza, with the former describing it like so:
Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota Plot
Kashiwada is a girl who never shows emotions on her face. Oota always tries to surprise her…but never succeeds.
Kashiwada and Oota are classmates at a junior high school.
Oota is always thinking of pranks to surprise Kashiwada, but he always fails. Kashiwada likes to look at Oota, for he shows his emotions on his face too much. They look like opposite type of people, but they both care about each other.
“Look, Oota is up to something…” Other classmates love to see the unique relationship between them.
A heart-warming love comedy which takes place in an ordinary junior high school in Japan.
Source: Anime News Network