The staff of the TV anime adaptation of Norishiro-chan and Sakana Uozumi’s Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? (Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa inai!?) manga confirmed the anime’s April 2026 premiere. The Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? anime will be airing at 11:45 p.m. JST in the IMAnimation W programming block on TV Asahi and affiliate channels.
The anime’s main cast includes:
- Shō Komura as Takuya Seo
- Konomi Inagaki plays Kei Amane
- Yū Serizawa plays Kotoko Ijichi
Shin Mita is directing the series at TMS Entertainment’s number 6 Studio. Kazuhiko Inukai is handling the series scripts. Rion Matsuda is the character designer and chief animation director, and Kō Satō is composing the music.
Additional staff members include:
- Art Director: Teruhiko Niita
- Color Key Artist: Ayaka Iwamoto
- CG Director: Atsushi Kimura
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yūsuke Noguchi
- Editing: Tomoki Nagasaka
Norishiro-chan and Uozumi launched the manga series in Coamix’s Monthly Comic Zenon magazine in August 2021. Norishiro-chan writes the manga with art by Uozumi. Coamix is releasing the manga series in Japan.
Yen Press licensed the manga in English, and its first volume will be released in English on October 28. Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga series, via Yen Press:
Meet Takuya Seo, an otaku who sits behind the popular gals in class, Ijichi and Amane. Since they’re people from different “castes,” you wouldn’t expect them to have much in common. But when their worlds collide over a borrowed eraser, Takuya slips up about his favorite anime, and Amane…is rather quick to correct him. She says she’s not a fan, but her familiarity with the series suggests otherwise. Could she be…a fellow geek?!
