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'Go for It, Nakamura!' Anime Reveals 7 More Cast Members

A stage presentation at the KyoMAF event on Saturday for the television anime adaptation of Syundei's Go for It, Nakamura! (Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!) boys-love manga revealed seven more cast members.

The new cast includes (from left to right in above image):

• Takuya Eguchi as Sou Otogiri
• Fairouz Ai as Hifumi Kawamura
• Yukihiro Nozuyama as Kota Takeuchi
• Atsushi Tamaru as Ryou Mukai
• Makoto Koichi as Yuka Hamaoka
• Yume Maihara as Masako Okuda
• Tsubasa Sasa as Tsukasa Omori

The event also revealed a new promotional video and ANN will update this article once the video is available.

Crunchyroll will stream the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.

The anime will star Chiaki Kobayashi as Okuto Nakamura and Yuki Sakakihara as Aiki Hirose. Kappei Yamaguchi and Junko Takeuchi will also voice as-yet unrevealed characters in the anime. Yamaguchi and Takeuchi starred in a previous audio drama adaptation.

Aoi Umeki (Pop Team Epic) is directing the anime and also writing the scripts and designing the characters. Drive is animating the series. Naoki Yoshibe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure animation director) is the assistant director, and Yasuko Aoki (Phantom of the Idol, Tying the Knot With an Amagami Sister) of Studio Monado is both writing and overseeing the series scripts. Ayana Tsujita (The Demon Prince of Momochi House) is composing the music.

Other staff members include

• Concept Director: Tetsuya Tatamitani
• Art Director: Cheon Bok Lee (Studio Blue)
• Color Design: Harue Ono (MAD BOX)
• Director of Photography: Yū Wakabayashi (ENISHIYA)
• Visual Director: Toshitaka Kanda
• Editing: Yūsuke Ueno (Yanagi Editing Room)
• Color Script: Yue
• Prop Design, 2D Works: Ayumi Nagaki
• Costume Design: Yumi Nakamura
• Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

Syundei first published the original Go for It, Nakamura! manga as a short in Opera in December 2014, but began publishing new chapters in the magazine in June 2015. Akaneshinsha published one compiled book volume for the manga in May 2017.

Seven Seas licensed the romantic comedy manga, and it describes the story:

Nakamura is a shy boy who falls in love at first sight with one of his classmates–his dreamy high school classmate, Hirose. But there's a problem: they haven't met yet. And Nakamura is a total klutz who might bungle things before they even begin!

Syundei launched a sequel titled Go for It Again, Nakamura! (Motto Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!) in Akaneshinsha's boys-love anthology Opera in June 2017. Akaneshinsha published the manga's volume in August 2021. Seven Seas published the sequel.

Source: Stage presentation at KyoMAF event