Now That We Draw manga is getting an anime adaptation by studio ROLL2. The main cast and staff were also revealed, along with a visual and trailer. Sayumi Suzushiro stars as Niina Miyamoto and Ayumu Murase as Yuuki Uehara.
Shunsuke Ishikawa (Blue Lock the Movie: Episode Nagi) is directing the anime, with Deko Akao (The Case Study of Vanitas) in charge of the series composition and Hiromi Nakagawa (Wataten! An Angel Flew Down to Me) on character designs.
The anime is based on a manga by Kyu Takahata and Yuwji Kaba. It has been serialized in Hakusensha’s seinen manga magazine Young Animal since February 2023 and currently has 5 volumes available. Volume 6 is set to release on November 28, 2025. Kaba also drew a commemorative visual for the anime announcement:
Seven Seas Entertainment is publishing the manga in English, describing it as follows:
Opposites attract in this hysterical rom-com about two high school manga artists who can’t catch a break!
Dweeby high schooler Uehara Yuuki has created the perfect romantic comedy heroine—she’s bashful, airheaded, and completely chaste. When an editor at Uehara’s dream publisher coldly dismisses his manga story as trite and lacking realism, it sends Uehara into a spiral of despair that pushes him into the path of his bubbly, gorgeous classmate, Miyamoto Niina—an aspiring manga artist herself!
Having gotten the similar feedback on her own manga, Miyamoto proposes she and Uehara engage in a fake relationship, since neither of them has any romantic experience. But Miyamoto is far from the perfect heroine Uehara’s concocted, and he certainly isn’t the cocky hero from her story either. Can their wacky relationship turn their manga dreams into reality, or will it lead to even more comic disasters?
Source: Now That We Draw anime official X (formerly Twitter), website
©Kyu Takahata, Yuwji Kaba/Hakusensha/”Kakunaru Ue wa” Production Committee
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