A young high school student is eager to learn the ways of manga creation in the exciting the TV anime adaptation of Minoru Toyoda’s Draw This, Then Die!. Final Weapon has everything you need to know about Draw This, Then Die!, including the weekly schedule, release dates and timing for new episodes, and much more about the new anime.
The story of Draw This, Then Die! focuses on first-year high school student Ai Yasumi, who lives on the island of Izu Oshima and enjoys reading manga. She becomes determined to create manga stories of her own, but there’s plenty of challenges to overcome. Ai faces them in stride, and she’s excited and capable of growing into a promising manga creator.
Draw This, Then Die! Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New episodes of Draw This, Then Die! will release on Fridays at 8:35 a.m. PT / 11:35 a.m. ET on Crunchyroll. Episodes will be released with English subs. Draw This, Then Die! is expected to feature 13 episodes in total.
Here are the release dates and schedule for Draw This, Then Die! (subject to change):
- Episode 1 – July 3 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – July 10
- Episode 3 – July 17
- Episode 4 – July 24
- Episode 5 – July 31
- Episode 6 – August 7
- Episode 7 – August 14
- Episode 8 – August 21
- Episode 9 – August 28
- Episode 10 – September 4
- Episode 11 – September 11
- Episode 12 – September 18
- Episode 13 – September 25
New episodes of Draw This, Then Die! will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 8:35 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 9:35 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 10:35 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 11:35 a.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 3:35 p.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
Tatsuya Kitani performs the opening theme song “Isho,” and Regal Lily performs the ending theme song “Conifer.”
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
- Noriko Hidaka as Pokota
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Nana Teramura
- Yukana as Hana Kongōji
Hiroaki Akagi, known for his work on The Dangers in My Heart, 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
Where Can I Watch Draw This, Then Die!?
Crunchyroll is streaming the Draw This, Then Die! in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and India. In Japan, the anime is airing on NTV’s “Friday Anime Night” programming block.
What is Draw This, Then Die! About?
Toyoda (Love Roma) launched the manga in Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine in November 2021. The series is also available on Sunday Webry.
Lastly, here’s an overview of Draw This, Then Die!, 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.
