Kadokawa announced a TV anime adaptation of VTuber Kurusu Natsume’s A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans (Jingai Kyōshitsu no Ningen-girai Kyōshi: Hitoma-sensei, Watashi-tachi ni Ningen o Oshiete Kuremasu ka……?) light novel series will premiere in January 2026. A new promotional video and teaser visual were revealed alongside the main cast and staff.
The anime’s cast includes:
- Toshiki Masuda as Rei Hitoma
- Sora Amamiya as Kyōka Minazuki
- Saori Ōnishi as Isaki Ōgami
- Maria Naganawa as Sui Usami
- Rui Tanabe as Tobari Haneda
Akira Iwanaga directs the anime at studio asread. Katsuhiko Takayama is in charge of series scripts, and Maiko Okada is designing the characters.
Additional staff members include:
- Sub-Character Designers: Hidetsugu Hirayama, Kanako Watanabe, Chika Kojima
- Art Director: Yoh Fujisawa
- Color Key Artist: Chisato Shioda
- Prop Design: Hara Yoshikazu
- Art Setting: Junko Nagasawa
- 3D Director: Yūta Nagaoka
- Compositing Director of Photography: Kenji Takehara
- Editing: Junichi Itou
- Sound Director: Tomohiko Yaginuma
- Sound Production: Zack Promotion
- Music: Makoto Miyazaki
- Music Production: Pony Canyon
Here’s a synopsis of the light novel series, via Yen Press:
I’m Rei Hitoma, a self-professed misanthrope, thanks to some past trauma. Just when I thought my new teaching job in the mountains would provide a chill, rejuvenating environment, it turns out that this school is actually for demi-humans who want to become full-fledged human beings! There’s a mermaid, a werewolf, a rabbit, and a bird…all of whom are now my charges. It’s my duty to teach them about humankind—and maybe in the process, I’ll learn a few things myself. This isn’t an alternate world or a case of reincarnation. It’s just the story of a teacher at a somewhat peculiar school, and his students who are striving to become human.
