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Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? Anime Premieres in April 2026

The staff for the TV anime of Norishiro-chan and Sakana Uozumi's Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? (Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa inai!?) manga announced on Saturday the anime's April 2026 premiere. The anime will run every Wednesday at 11:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. EDT) in the "IMAnimation W" programming block on TV Asahi and its affiliated channels.

Yen Press licensed the manga and released the first volume on October 28.

The anime stars: Shō Komura as Takuya Seo, Konomi Inagaki as Kei Amane, and Yū Serizawa as Kotoko Ijichi.

Shin Mita is directing the series at TMS Entertainment's number 6 Studio. Kazuhiko Inukai (Hokuto no Ken -Fist of the North Star-, Bakugan Battle Planet) is overseeing the series scripts. Rion Matsuda (Girlfriend, Girlfriend, Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire) is designing the characters and serving as chief animation director. Wataru Satō is composing the music for the series.

Norishiro-chan and Uozumi launched the manga in Coamix's Monthly Comic Zenon magazine in August 2021. Norishiro-chan writes the manga, and Uozumi draws the art. Coamix released the manga's 11th volume on October 20.

Source: Comic Natalie