The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Akira Konno’s Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo manga confirmed that the anime will premiere in April 2026. The anime’s main cast, main staff, and teaser trailer were also revealed.
The anime’s main cast includes Ayumu Murase as Arata Kōda (left on image above) and Yuria Kōzuki as Kujima (right).
Noriyuki Nomata directs the Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo anime at Studio Hibari. Shinichiro Kimura is the series director. Yasunori Yamada is overseeing the series scripts, Sakurako Mitsuhashi is the character designer, and Manami Kakudō is the music composer.
Konno launched the Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo manga in Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine in September 2021, and the series ran until April 2024. Shogakukan published the manga’s first compiled book volume in April 2022. The fifth and final volume released in May 2024.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga series, via MangaDex:
The fall of his first year in middle school, Arata Kouda meets a strange bird-like creature named Kujima. Seeing he’s hungry, Arata invites him into his home to eat. There he encounters Arata’s older brother, a shut-in studying for his next entrance exam. After a tense meeting Kujima decides to start freeloading at their house during the winter until the warm spring comes.
