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'Let's Play' Anime's English-Subtitled Trailer Unveils Cast, Staff, 2025 Premiere

The official website for studio OLM's anime adaptation of Leeanne M. Krecic's (also known as "Mongie") Let's Play web comic unveiled on Tuesday an English-subtitled trailer, cast, staff, and 2025 premiere.

The anime stars Kana Hanazawa as Sam Young.

Daiki Tomiyasu (Pokémon Sun & Moon) is directing the anime at OLM. Ebimo (High Card) is designing the characters. Aya Matsui (Marmalade Boy) is handling the series composition. Slowcurve is in charge of planning and production.

Crunchyroll will screen the world premiere at Anime Expo on July 3 with creator Leeanne M. Krecic, director Daiki Tomiyasu, and producers Heather Horn, Hana Sugawara, and Minaka Sakamoto in attendance.

Mongie launched the comic on the Korean platform WEBTOON in 2016. The comic ended its third "season" in September 2022, after which Mongie announced that she will no longer update the comic on WEBTOON due to numerous reasons involving the WEBTOON platform, including claims of lack of marketing on the platform and pay disparities. The comic will return in fall 2025, though Mongie has not yet announced a new platform.

Rocketship Entertainment is releasing the comic in English, and it released the fourth volume in July 2024. Rocketship Entertainment describes the story:

She's young, single and about to achieve her dream of creating incredible video games. But then life throws her a one-two punch: a popular streamer gives her first game a scathing review.

Even worse, she finds out that same troublesome critic is now her new neighbor! A funny, sexy, and all-too-real story about gaming, memes, and social anxiety.

OLM is best known for production on such anime as the various Pokémon television anime, films, and video anime, as well as the Yōkai Watch television anime and films. The studio also animated the Future Card Buddyfight, Berserk, BanG Dream!, Atom The Beginning, Inazuma Eleven, To Heart, and Utawarerumono anime, as well as the Miss Hokusai film. The studio has also produced such anime as Odd Taxi, Komi Can't Communicate, Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout, Summer Time Rendering, Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack, The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of Rust Mountain, The Apothecary Diaries, and Pon no Michi.

Sources: Let's Play anime's website, email correspondence