The official Twitter/X account for the upcoming Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota TV anime series has announced that the show will premiere in Japan, starting in October 2025.
／#柏田さんと太田君 放送時期決定✨
— TVアニメ「顔に出ない柏田さんと顔に出る太田君」 (@kashiwada_ohta) June 20, 2025
2025年10月より放送開始！
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柏田さんと太田君と、クラスメイトたちのほのぼのラブコメ。
ぜひお見逃しなく🌸
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The official website also posted several preview stills for the show’s first episode. The series will also have its world premiere at Anime Expo 2025 on July 3, 2025, as part of NBCUniversal Japan’s screening and industry panel.
Tomohiro Kamitani (Mix: Meisei Story Season 2) is directing the anime series, with Michiko Yokote (Call of the Night) as series screenwriter and Naoto Nakamura (DATE A LIVE IV and V) as character designer and chief animation director. STUDIO POLON is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes:
- • Akane Fujita as Kashiwada-san
- • Kyohei Natsume as Oota-kun
- • Yuya Hirose as Tadokoro-kun
- • Sohei Horikane as Sata-kun
- • Yumiri Hanamori as Tabuchi-san
- • Mayu Mineda as Odajima-san
Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota is based on the romantic comedy manga by Fuyu Azuma, which was serialized in KADOKAWA’s Dragon Comics Edge from June 22, 2018 to June 9, 2023. Ten tankobon volumes were released in total. BookWalker Global and MangaPlaza have both released the manga in English digitally.
A new spinoff manga by Azuma was also released on October 13, 2023 and has published two tankobon volumes as of April 2025.
Bookwalker Global describes the main synopsis of Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota 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.
Sources: Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota Official Twitter, Official Anime Website, Anime News Network
