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Tomo-chan is a Girl Anime Reveals Full Promo Video, More Staff, Ending Song, January 4 Debut, 13-Episode Length

Aniplex's official YouTube channel began streaming the full promotional video for the television anime of Fumita Yanagida's Tomo-chan Is a Girl! (Tomo-chan wa Onna no Ko!) manga on Sunday. The video revealed the anime's January 4 premiere and the anime's ending theme titled "yurukuru＊love."

Cast members Rie Takahashi, Rina Hidaka, and Sally Amaki are performing the ending theme as their respective characters.

The anime's website also revealed more staff members and a new key visual for the anime:

The newly announced staff members are:

• Chief Animation Directors: Miyako Kamiya, Motohiro Taniguchi
• Art Director: Ken'ichi Tatefuji
• Art Design: Ken'ichi Tatefuji, Kouji Okamoto (Vectart)
• Color Key Artist: Tomoko Yamazaki
• Compositing Director of Photography: Yomogiko Murano
• Editing: Gō Sadamatsu
• Sound Director: Masanori Tsuchiya
• Sound Production: INSPION Edge

The anime's website lists six Blu-ray Disc/DVD volumes with a total of 13 episodes.

The anime will premiere in January with Crunchyroll streaming it as it airs. This year's Anime NYC event screened the world premiere of the first two episodes on November 19.

The cast includes:

• Rie Takahashi as Tomo Aizawa (in Japanese)
• Lexi Nieto as Tomo Aizawa (in English)
• Kaito Ishikawa as Junichiro Kubota (in Japanese)
• Sally Amaki as Carol Olston (in Japanese and English)
• Rina Hidaka as Misuzu Gundo (in Japanese)
• Kōhei Amasaki as Kosuke Misaki
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tatsumi Tanabe

Hitoshi Namba is directing the anime at Lay-duce with assistant director Noriko Hashimoto. Megumi Shimizu (Banished From The Heroes' Party, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!) is serving as the head writer, and Shiori Hiraiwa is designing the characters. Masaru Yokoyama (Horimiya, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, 2019's Fruits Basket) is composing the music.

Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English, and it describes the story:

Boyish high school girl Tomo Aizawa finally manages to tell her childhood friend Jun that she's got a crush on him. Unfortunately, her confession goes right over his head—he didn't even realize she was a girl until middle school, and even now, Jun still thinks of her as a bro! How can Tomo-chan possibly convince him otherwise and win Jun's heart?

Yanagida launched the manga as a four-panel manga on Seikaisha's "Twi4" (Twitter 4-koma) Twitter account, beginning in April 2015, and it continued on the company's Saizensen website. The manga won Da Vinci and streaming service Niconico's second Tsugi ni Kuru Web Manga Awards in 2015.

The manga ended in its eighth volume, which shipped in September 2019.

Sources: Aniplex's YouTube channel, Tomo-chan Is a Girl! anime's website and Twitter account