NBCUniversal announced Fuyu Azuma’s Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota manga will receive a TV anime adaptation. The anime’s staff and cast were revealed alongside a new trailer, key visual, and illustration from Azuma on the official website.
㊗「顔に出ない柏田さんと顔に出る太田君」
アニメ化決定しました！！㊗長年応援してくださっている皆様のお陰です…！
本当にありがとうございます！！！公式X：@kashiwada_ohta
公式サイト：https://t.co/on5Hxf6cdK pic.twitter.com/fWxld8WbcK— 東ふゆ (@fukuma333) March 14, 2025
The cast of the anime includes:
- Akane Fujita as Kashiwada-san
- Kyouhei Natsume as О̄ta-kun
- Yūya Hirose as Tadakoro-kun
- Sōhei Horikane as Sata-kun
Tomohiro Kamitani directs the anime at STUDIO POLON, with Michiko Yokote overseeing the series scripts. Naoto Nakamura is the character designer and chief animation director, and Yukari Hashimoto and Tetsuya Shitara are the anime’s music composer.
The newly announced staff members include:
- Background Art: Maho Takahashi
- Art Director: Scott MacDonald
- Color Design: Haremi Miyagawa
- Director of Photography: Yomogiko Murano
- CG Director: Daisuke Shima
- Editing: Akane Shiraishi
- Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
Azuma launched the manga on Kadokawa’s Dra Dra Sharp# website in July 2018. The 10th and final complied book volume launched in July 2023. BookWalker Global and MangaPlaza publish the manga in English. Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga:
Kashiwada is a girl who never shows emotions on her face. Oota always tries to surprise her…but never succeeds.
Kashiwada and Oota are classmates at a junior high school.
Oota is always thinking of pranks to surprise Kashiwada, but he always fails. Kashiwada likes to look at Oota, for he shows his emotions on his face too much. They look like opposite type of people, but they both care about each other.
“Look, Oota is up to something…” Other classmates love to see the unique relationship between them.
A heart-warming love comedy which takes place in an ordinary junior high school in Japan.
