A new key visual and main voice cast have been unveiled for the upcoming Noa-senpai Wa Tomodachi. TV anime series, which will premiere in 2027.
The main voice cast of the series will star Rina Kawaguchi as Noa Saotome and Tomoya Ito as Rihito Otsuka. Kawaguchi is best known for voicing Nico Wakatsuki in Witch Watch, while Ito voiced Togo Asagaki/Kizuna Red in The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World/
Shinsuke Yanagi (Senpai is an Otokonoko, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki) is directing the anime series, with Yumiko Yamamoto (Lycoris Recoil sub-character designer, Sword Art Online Alicization War of Underworld co-character designer, the upcoming Sword Art Online – Integral Domain –) as character designer and Keiicihiro Ochi (I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class, Black Clover 2nd Season) as series composer. Feel. is in charge of the animation production.
The show’s official website also lists the anime with the English title Noa Is My Senior, and My Friend.
The workplace comedy manga series by Enma Akiyama debuted in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump seinen magazine on July 6, 2023. Eleven tankobon volumes have been released in Japan as of July 2026, with a 12th volume set to be published on October 19, 2026.
Noa-senpai Wa Tomodachi. centers on two game company colleagues: an art director with a career woman image named Noa Saotome and her more relaxed colleague, Rihito Otsuka. They become “friends” by chance after Rihito stumbles upon the former’s more vulnerable side.
Sources: Noa-senpai Wa Tomodachi Official X/Twitter (2) (3), Anime News Network
