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Tsuredure Children Anime's 2nd Short Promo Shows Kissing Scene

The official website for the television anime of Toshiya Wakabayashi's Tsuredure Children (Idle Children) manga began streaming its second short promotional video on Wednesday. The video, titled "The Student Council President's Troubles," shows a scene where a boy and a girl begin to kiss, but the girl inadvertently pinches the boy's nose. The girl complains, saying "What else could I do?" After an unheard reply from the boy, she answers "Shut up! Are you my boyfriend?" In the end, they still end up kissing.

The anime will premiere on July 4 on Tokyo MX at 11:15 p.m., on Sun TV on 12:15 a.m. (effectively July 5 morning), and on BS11 at 2:15 a.m. (effectively July 5 morning). Each episode will be 15 minutes long.

The anime stars:

• Kaito Ishikawa as Takurō Sugawara
• Inori Minase as Chizuru Takano
• Tomoaki Maeno as Takeru Gōda
• Yui Ogura as Ayaka Kamine
• Kensho Ono as Masafumi Akagi
• Ayane Sakura as Ryōko Kaji

Hiraku Kaneko (The Qwaser of Stigmata, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid, Manyū Hiken-chō) is directing the anime at Studio Gokumi, and Tatsuhiko Urahata (Saki, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, Haganai NEXT) is in charge of the series scripts. Etsuko Sumimoto (Yurikuma Arashi) is designing the characters.

Inori Minase is performing the anime's opening theme song, and Yui Ogura is performing the ending theme song.

The four-panel manga is dedicated "to those of you who can't say 'I love you.'" The manga chronicles a series of short school romance stories in an omnibus format.

Wakabayashi launched the manga online in October 2012, and then also began serializing it with new material in Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2015. Kodansha published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on February 17, and will ship the eighth volume on June 16. Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga digitally in English, and published the manga's first volume on April 25.

[Via Ota-Suke]