During AnimeJapan 2026, the staff of the upcoming anime adaptation of Kyū Takahata and Yūji Kaba’s Now That We Draw (Kakunaru Ue wa) manga series revealed the key visual.
The main cast members includes Ayumu Murase as Yūki Uehara and Sayumi Suzushiro as Niina Miyamoto.
Shunsuke Ishikawa directs the Now That We Draw anime at ROLL2, Deko Akao supervises the series scripts, and Hiromi Nakagawa is the character designer. Infinite is producing the anime series.
The manga was launched in Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine in 2023. Thus far, Hakusensha published five volumes to date. Seven Seas Entertainment licenses the manga in English.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga, via Seven Seas Entertainment:
Dweeby high schooler Uehara Yuuki has created the perfect romantic comedy heroine—she’s bashful, airheaded, and completely chaste. When an editor at Uehara’s dream publisher coldly dismisses his manga story as trite and lacking realism, it sends Uehara into a spiral of despair that pushes him into the path of his bubbly, gorgeous classmate, Miyamoto Niina—an aspiring manga artist herself! Having gotten similar feedback on her own manga, Miyamoto proposes she and Uehara engage in a fake relationship, since neither of them have any romantic experience. But Miyamoto is far from the perfect heroine Uehara’s concocted, and he certainly isn’t the cocky hero from her story either. Can their wacky relationship turn their manga dreams into reality, or will it lead to even more comic disasters?
