CyberAgent has announced that Tsumuji Yoshimura’s Just Like Mona Lisa (Seibetsu “Mona Lisa” no Kimi e) manga is getting a TV anime adaptation by animation production studio SHAFT. A new teaser visual for the anime adaptation was also revealed alongside a message and illustration from Yoshimura and details about the anime’s next appearance at AnimagiC 2026.
A special panel stage for Just Like Mona Lisa will be held at AnimagiC 2026 on August 1 at 13:00 CET/CEST in the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim, Germany. The panel will feature a live drawing session Yoshimura, The world premiere of the first trailer, and a special talk show with Yoshimura, Mitsutoshi Kubota (SHAFT Inc. CEO), and Manami Kabashima (CyberAgent anime producer).
Here’s the full message from Yoshimura:
An anime adaptation! It’s happening!!!
Thanks to everyone who’s supported me, we’re getting an anime adaptation!!
Seeing an original work of mine adapted into an anime has been my biggest dream as a manga artist, so I’m incredibly happy! Yay!!
I haven’t seen the finished footage yet myself, but from the bits and pieces of material I’ve been shown
during the supervision process, I can already tell that it’s going to be a stylish and wonderful anime.
I’d be absolutely thrilled if everyone would look forward to the premiere right alongside me!
I’m so curious to see how the manga’s turquoise visual art direction will turn out in the anime…!
With the help of everyone involved in the production, and through the power of animation, I sincerely hope from the bottom of my heart that this work will bring joy to so many more people who have yet to discover it!!
The Just Like Mona Lisa anime was previously teased with the codename “Project M” at Anime Expo 2025.
In a world where everyone is born genderless.
Their bodies shift toward their desired gender when they reach around twelve years old.
Yet Hinase alone had not changed at all and had now reached the age of eighteen.
Arima Hinase, a third-year high school student, carries the quiet unease of being the only one around them genderless, yet simply spends unchanged days with childhood friends Ritsu Kaga and Shiori Takayama, and that alone had been enough.
Then one day, when Ritsu and Shiori confess their feelings towards Hinease, their everyday life begins to change.
“Something is about to change. Their eighteenth spring has arrived.”
