The Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota manga is getting adapted into a TV anime, which will premiere this year. A trailer and spring-themed visual have been released.
Tomohiro Kamitani (Mix: Meisei Story Season 2) is directing the STUDIO POLON production. Michiko Yokote (Call of the Night) is the series composer, while Naoto Nakamura (DATE A LIVE IV and V) is the character designer and chief animation director.
The main cast includes Akane Fujita as Kashiwada-san, Kyohei Natsume as Oota-kun, Yuya Hirose as Tadokoro-kun, and Sohei Horikane as Sata-kun.
Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota (Kao ni Dadasani Kashiawa-san to Kao ni deru Oota-kun, or Expressionless Face Girl and Emotional Face Boy) is based on the manga by Fuyu Azuma, which was serialized in KADOKAWA’s Dragon Comics Edge. Bookwalker Global describes the premise as:
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.
The manga’s 10th and final tankobon volume was released in 2023.
