We first got word of an anime adaptation for Naru Narumi’s Watari-kun’s ****** Is about to Collapse (AKA Watari-kun no xx ga Hōkaisunzen) manga back in September. Now it has a premiere month, as well as news on the main staff and cast.
The series is set to premiere this July, with Takashi Naoya directing, Matsuo Asami assistant directing, Tetsuya Takahashi writing series composition and Shoko Yasuda handling character designs for the Staple Entertainment production.
The main cast includes Shuichiro Umeda as Naoto Watari, Yumika Yano as Satsuki Tachibana and Yurie Igoma as Yukari Ishihara.
There’s also a new piece of art:
The manga is available in America through Kodansha USA Publishing, which is offering it digitally. Kodansha gave this description for the manga:
Naoto Watari has had his share of struggles: his parents died two years ago, and now he and his sister live at his aunt’s house. There, his desire to protect his sister earned him notoriety as “the guy with the sister complex”—which never mattered to him, as his sister always came first. But when Satsuki, a childhood friend-turned-enemy(?), becomes his school mate, Naoto’s ordinary life is thrown into chaos … and Satsuki may just be the beginning.
Naru Narumi, the creator of Watari-kun’s ****** Is about to Collapse, debuted the series almost 10 years ago, back in 2014. At the time it was being published by Young Ace magazine from Kadokawa. The next year it switched to being published by Monthly Young magazine, which is owned by Kodansha, and hence the connection with Kodansha USA Publishing. It came to an end in 2023.
Narumi is also behind the manga Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles (Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san in Japanese), which is being published in America by Dark Horse Comics.
Source: Crunchyroll News