My Clueless First Friend Manga Gets TV Anime Adaptation

 

Elementary student Takada does his best to bring Nishimura out of her shell in the newly announced TV anime adaptation of Taku Kawamura’s manga My Clueless First Friend, which is set to premiere in April 2023 according to the official Twitter account for the adaptation. A teaser trailer and visual for the anime were unveiled alongside the announcement with the main staff and cast also revealed.

 

 

 

Taku Kawamura, the creator of the manga series, also released a special illustration to coincide with the announcement.

 

 

The staff of My Clueless First Friend is as follows:

 

• Director: Shigenori Kageyama (Himawari!)
• Series Composition: Takafumi Hoshikawa (Revolutionary Girl Utena), Shogo Yasukawa (The Executioner and Her Way of Life)
• Character Design: Chikashi Kadekaru (JUNI TAISEN：ZODIAC WAR)
• Music: Toshio Masuda (Naruto)
• Animation Production: Studio Signpost

 

Joining the staff as the lead cast members are:

 

Konomi Kohara (Akane Tachibana in Classroom of the Elite) as Akane Nishimura

 

Shizuka Ishigami (Ikuno in DARLING in the FRANXX) as Taiyou Takada

 

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Kawamura began serializing the manga in Square Enix’s Monthly Gangan Joker in 2018, with twelve volumes released in Japan to date. Square Enix Manga releases the English edition of the series, with the first volume scheduled to release in March 2023. Square Enix Manga describes the story as such:

 

Opposites attract when a cheerful airhead meets the resident wallflower of his new class in this heartwarming, slice-of-life school comedy series!

 

One lonely, gloomy fifth-grade girl is the target of her classmates’ relentless bullying and teasing—that is, until a new kid arrives on the scene. Friendly Takada is as clueless as he is well-meaning, but somehow he possesses the magic ability to start drawing “Grim Reaper” Nishimura out of her shell. As the elementary schoolers experience all the fun of a childhood summer together—from going to the pool to picking sunflowers to watching fireworks—an unusual friendship blossoms!

 

Source: Press Release, My Clueless First Friend on Twitter

 

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.