A new key visual and theme songs artist have been revealed at this year’s Aniplex Online Fest for the upcoming Hana-Kimi TV anime series, which will premiere in Japan in January 2026.
Japanese music duo YOASOBI will be performing the anime adaptation’s main opening and ending theme songs.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime worldwide, which includes North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, and India.
Natsuki Takemura is directing the anime series, with Shigeru Ueda as assistant director, Takao Yoshioka (2.5 Dimensional Seduction) as series screenwriter, and Shiyi Su (Dragon Goes House-Hunting) as character designer. Signal.MD is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast stars:
- • Aya Yamane as Mizuki Ashiya
- • Taku Yashiro as Sano Izumi
- • Kikunosuke Toya as Nakatsu Shuichi
- • Yuichiro Umehara as Minami Nanba
- • Jun Fukuyama as Hokuto Umeda
- • Reiji Kawashima as Senri Nakao
- • Koki Uchiyama as Daiki Kayashima
- • Wataru Komada as Kyogo Sekime
- • Anan Furuya as Shinji Noe
- • Kotaro Nishiyama as Wataru Nihonbashi
- • Yuko Natsuyoshi as Julia M.
The original shojo romance manga series by the late Hisaya Nakajo, which ran in Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume magazine from September 20, 1996 to August 20, 2004. A total of 23 tankobon volumes were released, as well as 12 aizoban volumes.
The manga inspired a 2006 Taiwanese drama, two Japanese dramas in 2007 and 2011, and a 2012 Korean drama.
Viz Media releases the Hana-Kimi manga series in English, and describes the main synopsis as:
Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself to transfer to a high school in Japan…but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she’s going to an all-guys’ high school…and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they’re more than classmates…they’re roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates–and the school nurse–must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation…
Sources: Hana-Kimi Official Twitter (2), Anime News Network
