A new main trailer has been released for the upcoming Toi-san wa Seishun Shitai! “Baka to Smartphone to Romance to” anime film. The film is scheduled to begin screening theatrically in Japan on July 18, 2025.
The new trailer features many of the additional characters and cast members who were announced last week.
Mankyu (Migi & Dali, Pui Pui Molcar the Movie: MOLMAX) is directing the anime film, with Yoichi Kato (Yo-Kai Watch, Duel Masters) as screenwriter, Akemi Kobayashi (Love After World Domination) as character designer, STPR MUSIC and AniTone as music composers, Hiromi Mizutani (Non Non Biyori) as background music composer, and Haru Yamada (Suzume, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-) as sound director. Seven Arcs is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime film’s voice cast includes:
- • Jel as Akane Toi and himself
- • Aki Toyosaki as Momo Mochizuki
- • Yuma Uchida as Satan Yamada
- • Ayane Sakura as Yuri Himeno
- • Junta Terashima as Hideki Otaku
- • Manaka Iwami as Haruka Shirakawa
- • Takehito Koyasu as Kenichi Minamoto
- • Nobuhiko Okamoto as Kiriya Numaoka
Strawberry Prince member Jel is involved in the film’s planning, scriptwriting, storyboarding, and character designs. STPR Records and Dentsu are credited with the film’s overall production. Strawberry Prince leader Nanamori. is also in charge of planning and serving as executive producer. Shochiku is distributing the film throughout Japan.
The Toi-san comedy short video series began with a video released on Twitter/X in April 2019. The series has inspired over 1,000 videos, totaling over 10 billion views on YouTube, TikTok, and other social media platforms. The series also inspired an official English study book and a novel.
Strawberry Prince are also featured in their own film titled Gekijoban SutoPuri Hajimari no Monogatari ~Strawberry School Festival!!!~ from LIDENFILMS, which premiered in Japanese theaters on July 19, 2024. It will stream on Crunchyroll sometime later this summer. The group’s members starred as the main voice cast in the film.
Crunchyroll News describes the main synopsis of Toi-san anime film as:
The story of Toi-san follows Akane Toi, a high school girl who is known by her classmates as “Toi-san”. Toi-san intends to have an ordinary high school experience, but on her first day of school she meets a handsome boy named Jel, and although Toi-san assumes that her school life is about to turn into a romance, instead Jel and the rest of her classmates are so wacky and eccentric that every day turns into a comedy complete with stand-up routines and skits! In the film, Toi-san ends up joining the mysterious “Youth Romance Club”, which seeks to uncover “youthful” and “romantic” things.
Source: Jel Official Twitter (via AIR News)
