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'Go for It, Nakamura!' TV Anime Reveals April 1 Debut in 3rd Promo Video

Aniplex revealed a third promotional video on Friday for the television anime adaptation of Syundei's Go for It, Nakamura! (Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!) boys-love manga. The staff also revealed the show's debut on April 1.

The anime will debut on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 on April 1 at 24:30 (effectively April 2 at 12:30 a.m.). The show's first and second episodes will debut together online only on Hulu on April 1 at 24:30, and then each new episode will debut a week earlier on Hulu before the television broadcast in Japan.

The anime stars:

• Chiaki Kobayashi as Okuto Nakamura
• Yuki Sakakihara as Aiki Hirose
• 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

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

A previous promo video for the show had previewed Senri Oe's song "Glory Days" and Princess Princess' song "Sekai de Ichiban Atsui Natsu" (The World's Hottest Summer).

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: Press release