The Crunchyroll Showcase at New York Comic Con 2026 exposed extra cast, personnel, and a marketing video for the tv anime adjustment of Sumiko Arai’s Kininatteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta (The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at Allmanga on Thursday. The anime is set up to premiere on January 8 at 11:00 p.m. on NTV’s Friday Anime Night timeslot.
Cast
Joe: Kenjirou Tsuda (Gokushufudou
Narita: Tasuku Hatanaka (Boku no Hero Academia
Chizuru: Yurina Amami (Mikadono Sanshimai wa Angai, Choroi.
Mao: Fairouz Ai (Chainsaw Man
Kanna: Maiko Nomura (Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru.
Kousuke Noma and Takayuki “Koujirou” Sasaki are signing up with the personnel as music authors.
Masashi Ishihama (Horimiyais directing the anime at CloverWorks. Rino Yamazaki (Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Sakuis managing the series structure and Kanna Hirayama (is creating the characters.
Arai initially started publishing the music-themed ladies enjoy manga, likewise understood by its brief title Kiniotoon their X (previously Twitter) account in April 2022. Kadokawa started printing the manga in April 2023 and released the 4th volume last February. The 5th volume is prepared to be launched on January 13.
Yen Press certified the manga in English in April 2024 and launched the very first volume in October that year. The 3rd volume went on sale in December 2025, with the 4th volume set up to be launched on October 27. The manga is likewise released in several foreign languages, consisting of Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese.
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Source: Comic Natalie
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