A second new key visual has been unveiled for the upcoming Danjo no Yujo wa Seiritsu suru? (Iya, Shinai!!) TV anime series, which will premiere in Japan on April 4, 2025. The series will be broadcasted on the Tokyo MX and AT-X channels, as well as on BS Asahi and Kansai TV channels on April 6, 2025, and TV Miyazaki on April 10, 2025.
Yohei Suzuki (Sugar Apple Fairy Tale) is directing the anime series, with Nozu Yaemori as series screenwriter and Natsuki Oyama (2.5 Dimensional Seduction Episode 11 co-animation designer) as character designer. J.C.Staff is in charge of the animation production.
Other staff include Pony Canyon’s Jun Ichikawa (Baban Baban Ban Vampire, Engaged to the Unidentified) as music composer and Magic Capsule’s Jin Aketagawa (The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) as sound director.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Kikunosuke Toya as Yu Natsume
- • Sayumi Suzushiro as Himari Inuzuka
- • Yuka Nukui as Rion Enomoto
- • Ko Bonkohara as Shinji Makishima
- • Masaaki Mizunaka as Hibari Inuzuka
- • Hisako Kanemoto as Sakura Natsume
The anime is based on the romantic comedy light novel series written by Nana Nanana and illustrated by Parum. The light novels were first published by ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko label on January 9, 2021 and has released 10 volumes as of December 2024, which includes the second part of volume four. A manga adaptation by Kamelie was launched in August 2021.
Danjo no Yujo wa Seiritsu suru? centers on high school students and best friends Yu Natsume and Himari Inazuka, who first met at a middle school festival. Heading into high school, the two continue maintaining their distance as “best friends” of opposite genders, until the appearance of a cool and beautiful girl named Rion Enomoto, who was Yu’s first love, upends their lives.
