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My Awkward Senpai Anime Premieres on October 2

The official website for the television anime of Makoto Kudo's My Awkward Senpai (Bukiyō na Senpai.) manga announced on Wednesday the anime's October 2 premiere on the Tokyo MX channel at 10:00 p.m. JST (9:00 a.m. EDT), and on BS NTV at 11:00 p.m. JST. The anime will stream on the U-NEXT and Anime Hōdai services in Japan on October 2 at 10:30 p.m. JST. The anime will run on the AT-X channel on October 3, and will start streaming on other services on October 6.

The anime stars:

• Lynn as Azusa Kannawa
• Shōgo Sakata as Yū Kamegawa
• Ami Maeshima as Miho Hotta
• Mitsuki Saiga as Ritsu Kankaiji

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.

angela performs the opening theme song "Bukiyō na I love you" (The Awkward I love you). Ami Maeshima performs the ending theme song "Bukiyō ni Kimi no Tonari" (Awkwardly Next to You).

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 website, Comic Natalie