NBCUniversal announced the TV anime adaptation of Fuyu Azuma’s Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota manga will premiere in October 2025. A world premiere of the first episode will be held at the NBCUniversal Japan’s “Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota Screening & Industry Panel” at Anime Expo 2025 on July 3 at 12:00 p.m. PDT.
The cast of the Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota anime includes:
- Akane Fujita as Kashiwada-san
- Kyouhei Natsume as О̄ta-kun
- Yūya Hirose as Tadakoro-kun
- Sōhei Horikane as Sata-kun
- Yumiri Hanamori as Tabuchi-san
- Mayu Mineda as Odajima-san
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.
Additional 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 publishes the manga in English and describes it as follows:
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.
