Manga 'Kakunaru Ue wa' Gets TV Anime

Production company Infinite opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Kyuu Takahata and Yuuji Kaba's Kakunaru Ue wa (Now That We Draw) manga on Friday, revealing the main cast, staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and teaser promotional video. Voice actresses Sayumi Suzushiro (Bocchi the Rock!) and Ayumu Murase (Mizu Zokusei no Mahoutsukai) are starring as Niina Miyamoto and Yuuki Uehara, respectively. Takahata and Kaba began serializing the romantic comedy manga in Young Animal in February 2023. Hakusensha published the fifth volume on April 28, with the sixth volume went on sale on November 28. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga for English release in September 2024 and published the third volume on October 21, with the fourth volume is planned for a February 24, 2026 release. Synopsis Dweeby high schooler Yuuki Uehara 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, Niina Miyamoto—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? (