The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Minoru Toyoda’s Draw this, then die! (Kore Kaite Shine) manga has revealed the anime’s main staff and cast. The Draw this, then die! anime is currently set to premiere in July 2026 on NTV and affiliate channels.
A new key visual was also revealed:
Hiroaki Akagi (The Dangers in My Heart, Teasing Master Takagi-san) directs the anime series at Shin-Ei Animation. Hiroko Fukuda oversees the series scripts and writes the scripts along with Aki Itami and Kanichi Katō. Takekazu Segawa is the character designer.
Additional staff includes:
- Color Key Artist: Kumiko Yanagisawa
- Art Director: Reiji Kasuga
- Compositing Director of Photography: Shigemitsu Hamao
- Editing: Aya Hida
- Music: Hiroaki Tsutsumi (MIRACLE BUS)
- Sound Director: Tatsuhiro Amano
- Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
The anime’s cast includes:
- Akira Sekine as Ai Yasumi
- Saori Hayami as Rei Teshima
- Saya Hitomi as Kokoro Fujimori
- Kanon Fujimura as Sachi Akafuku
- Inori Minase as Hikaru Sekiryū
Toyoda (Love Roma) launched the manga in Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine in November 2021. The series is also available on Sunday Webry. What’s more, the eighth volume shipped on October 10, 2025.
Lastly, here’s an overview of Kore Kaite Shine, via MyAnimeList:
Ai Yasumi, a first-year high school student living on Izu-Oshima, loves manga more than anything. When she learns that her long-admired, yet long-inactive, favorite manga artist Hoshi no Rei will be exhibiting at COMITIA, she sets off on a journey to Tokyo.
What she doesn’t expect, however, is that a fateful encounter at the event will change her life forever.
“How does one become a manga artist?” Ai steps into the world of manga creation—a path she thought she understood, yet knows so little about. This is the story of a girl taking her first steps down the road to becoming a mangaka.
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