During the platform announcement panel Crunchyroll at the convention Anime Expoheld in Los Angeles, it was announced that the romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Fumita Yanagida, Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko! (Tomo-chan Is a Girl!) will be adapted to anime. The series has its premiere scheduled for January 2023 under the production of the studios Lay-duce.
The first visual for the series was also released.
The author, Fumita Yanagida published a special illustration to celebrate the announcement.
list of voices
- Rie Takahashi como Tomo Aizawa.
- Kaito Ishikawa como Junichiro Kubota.
- Rina Hidaka as Misuzu Gundo.
- Sally Amaki como Carol Olston.
Production team
- The series will be directed by Hitoshi Namba in the studios Lay-duce.
- The scripts will be written by Megumi Shimizu.
- The design of the characters will be in charge of Shiroi Hiraiwa.
- The soundtrack will be composed by Masaru Yokoyama.
Yanagida began publishing the manga in April 2015 in the magazine Saizensen and ended it in July 2019 with eight compilation volumes published in total under the umbrella of the publisher Kodansha.
Sinopsis de Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!
Tomo and Jun have been best friends since they were little kids, but now that they’re in high school, Tomo wants them to be something more… Too bad Jun only sees her as a boy. This is why Tomo is determined to prove to Jun that she too is a woman.
Fuente: Twitter account
