Tomo-chan Is a Girl! – Crunchyroll Winter 2023 Spotlight
One of the many highlights of Crunchyroll’s Winter 2023 Lineup is Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, based on the manga Fumita Yanagida. The rom-com anime kicks off its broadcast in Japan today, so we’ve got a spotlight just for Tomo, Misuzu and co.!
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Launch Time: January 4 at 10:00 a.m. PT
Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS
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A youthful romantic comedy between a boyish girl and her dense childhood friend. Loved by fans all over the world, this series is now being made into an anime! Ever since the manga for “Tomo-chan Is A Girl!” started on Twitter in 2015, this awkward yet straightforward romance between the boyish protagonist and her childhood friend became loved by readers. The series concluded in 2019. It won 1st place for the Web Manga category in the 2nd Annual NEXT MANGA AWARDS.
Not only is it extremely popular among fans in Japan, but the series also has many passionate fans overseas, which led to this long-awaited anime adaptation! Boyish high school girl Tomo Aizawa (Tomo-chan) wants her childhood friend Junichiro Kubota to see her as an actual girl, but every attempt ends up in vain. Will Junichiro ever realize Tomo’s romantic feelings towards him?! In 2023, Tomo-chan and her very unique friends will charm the world with this youthful romcom!
Tomo Aizawa
VA: Rie Takahashi (Emilia in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-)
Junichiro Kubota
VA: Kaito Ishikawa (Tobio Kageyama in Haikyu!!)
Misuzu Gundo
VA: Rina Hidaka (Silica in Sword Art Online)
Carol Olston
VA: Sally Amaki (Sakura Fujima in 22/7 (nanabun no nijyuuni))
Kousuke Misaki
VA: Kouhei Amasaki (Neito Monoma in My Hero Academia)
Tatsumi Tanabe
VA: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Bell Cranell in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?)
Original Creator
Fumita Yanagida
Director
Hitoshi Nanba (Golden Kamuy)
Series Composition
Megumi Shimizu (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!)
Character Design
Shiori Hiraiwa
Chief Animation Directors
Miyako Kamiya
Motohiro Taniguchi
Art Director
Kenichi Tatefuji
Sound Director
Masanori Tsuchiya
Music
Masaru Yokoyama
Opening Theme Performer
Maharajan – “Kurae! Telepathy”
Ending Theme Performer
Rie Takahashi, Rina Hidaka, Sally Amaki – “urukuru＊love”
Animation Production
Lay-duce
In an effort to push for the success of the series, the voices of Tomo Aizawa and Carol Olston, Rie Takahashi and Sally Amaki, visited Tokyo’s Suga Shrine together back in November. Director Hitoshi Nanba provided an illustration for the ena, a wooden tablet that’s hung up at a shrine or temple after a prayer is written on it, on behalf of the staff and cast to pray for the anime to be a big hit.
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「トモちゃんは女の子！」
ヒット祈願⛩✨
＼四谷·須賀神社さんへ、関係者一同に加え、#高橋李依 さん、#天城サリー さんとヒット祈願に行って参りました！
絵馬には #難波日登志 監督に描いていただいたトモがいますよ????
放送をお楽しみに????#tomochan pic.twitter.com/AHU4YV7mo2
— トモちゃんは女の子！TVアニメ公式 (@tomo_chan_ani) November 8, 2022
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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.
