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My Awkward Senpai TV Anime's Main Promo Video Reveals More Cast, Staff, Opening Song, October Debut
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The staff for the television anime adaptation of Makoto Kudo's My Awkward Senpai (Bukiyō na Senpai.) manga revealed on Monday the anime's main visual and promotional video, more cast, staff, and its October debut on the Tokyo MX and BS NTV channels. The video also reveals and previews the opening theme song "Bukiyō na I love you" (The Awkward I love you) by angela.
The newly announced cast are:
The newly announced staff include:
- Prop Design: Akira Ono, Nozomi Goto
- Chief Animation Directors: Kenrō Tokuda, Reina Yamauchi, Yumiko Mizuno, Akira Ono
- Art Director: Hiroshi Gōroku (Makaria)
- Art Setting: Jun Osano (cre-p), Takashi Yamanaka (cre-p), Junya Nishihara (cre-p), Yu-nit (cre-p), Noriko Tsutsui (Studio Aqua), Hiroshi Izumi
- Color Design：Yūsuke Watanabe
- 2D Works: Tetsuya Nishimura, Takashi Hatono, Hiroyuki Kodama (Hayabusa Film), Ritsu Takesaki (Hayabusa Film)
- 3DCG：Shō Yamada (Makaria), Aaron "The Game" Pong (Makaria)
- Special Effects：Yoshiyuki Ōta
- Compositing Director of Photography：Yūsaku Murakami
- Offline Editing: Chinami Watanabe (Graphinica)
- Online Editing: qooop
- Sound Director: Daiki Hachimaki (Klang Clan)
- Sound Effects：Yasuyuki Konno
- Recording Adjustment：Hikaru Shiiba (Klang Clan)
- Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
- Music Production: King Records
- Music Producer: Yutaka Suwa
Ayumu Kotake (Acro Trip) is directing the anime at Studio Elle. Mio Inoue (Slow Start, Wonderful Precure!) is in charge of series scripts, Kenrō Tokuda (Acro Trip chief animation director) is designing the characters, and Kōji Fujimoto is composing the music.
Comikey and Square Enix's Manga UP! Global service both publish the manga in English digitally. Manga UP! describes the story:
Kannawa-senpai is considered many things, but smooth is definitely not one of them. Then she meets Kamegawa, her new Kouhai. He's cute, a little nerdy, and easy to talk to. How will this awkward Senpai be able to handle these new feelings?!
Kudo first posted the manga on their X/Twitter account in March 2019. The manga started serializing in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine in December 2019. Square Enix published the manga's ninth compiled book volume on March 25, and will publish the 10th volume on September 25.
Sources: My Awkward Senpai anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
