Tomo-chan is a girl! will be adapted into an anime! Comments from Riyo Takahashi and others, teaser PV released! Directed by Hitoshi Namba

The popular manga "Tomo is a Girl! will be adapted into an anime and broadcast from January 2023. The teaser PV and cast comments were announced.

Tomo is a girl!" (Seikaisha COMICS) by Shinta Yanagida, which won the first prize in the Web Manga Division of the "2nd Next Coming Manga Award. (Seikaisha COMICS). (Seikaisha COMICS). The story depicts a clumsy but straightforward love affair between the boyish protagonist and his childhood friend.

The main character, Tomo, has a strong power and core, and his way of life has been enthusiastically supported by manga and anime fans overseas, especially in the U.S. The long-awaited anime adaptation of this work will finally be released in Japan and the U.S. in January 2023! It was announced at the Crunchyroll Industry Panel during Anime Expo 2022 in Los Angeles, USA, that the series will be released in Japan, the U.S., and other regions around the world starting in January 2023. The film will be directed by Hittoshi Namba, who has directed "Golden Kamui" and many others.

The cast includes Riyo Takahashi as Satoru Aizawa, Kaito Ishikawa as Junichiro Kubota, Rina Hidaka as Misuzu Gundo, and Sally Amagi as Carol Allston. Sally Amagi will also play the role of Carol in the English dubbed version.

In addition to the teaser PV and teaser visual, comments from the original author, director, and cast have also arrived. The official website ( # ) and Twitter ( @tomo_chan_ani ) are also open, so be sure to check them out.

Teaser PV and Riyo Takahashi's comment video

Teaser PV

Riyo Takahashi's comment video

Cast comments, character information

■Riyo Takahashi as Satoru Aizawa
I had been reading about it on Tsui4 for a long time,
I was so excited as a reader when I heard that it was going to be made into an anime!
I am so happy to be able to play the role of Tomo-chan, as I had filled the audition with the image of Tomo-chan that I wished she had such a voice and such a way of speaking. I am so happy to be in charge of this role. I will play the role with gusto and fun!
Thank you very much for your support!

<Character Information
Class A, 1st year at Uenosui High School. He has been training at his family's karate dojo since he was a child and is currently a member of the boys' karate club.
He has a boyish appearance and personality, and is good at sports and martial arts.
He loves his childhood friend Junichiro.

Junichiro Kubota: Kaito Ishikawa
I am Kaito Ishikawa, who will be playing the role of Junichiro.
I am honored to be able to be involved as a voice actor in this work that I used to get excited about while reading the last episode.
I am thrilled to play the role of Junichiro, and I hope to enjoy playing the role with a sense of excitement and a sense of humor!

<Character Information
Class A, 1st year at Uenosui High School. She is a childhood friend who lives in the house next door to Tomo's. She and Tomo have been friends since elementary school. He and Tomo have known each other since elementary school and get along well with each other as if they were boys.
He is unsociable, but in front of Tomo, he shows an innocent and childish side.

Rina Hidaka as Misuzu Gundo
My name is Rina Hidaka, and I play the role of Misuzu Gundo.
Misuzu doesn't usually change her facial expression much, but I feel she is a very playful child.
She is a childhood friend of Tomo and Junichiro, so I will enjoy their reactions as much as I can by giving them a good teasing at a good distance!
I will do my best in the recording so that everyone can feel the various charms of Misuzu! Please look forward to the broadcast!

＜Character Information
Class A, 1st year at Uenosui High School. Tomo and Junichiro's childhood friend. He is calm and collected, excels academically, and is always in the top of his class.
On the other hand, he has a sharp tongue and always gives Tomo harsh advice. Junichiro and Tomo are close friends.

Carol Allston: Sally Amagi
I am very honored to have the opportunity to play the role of Carol in both Japanese and English.
I am very happy to have this opportunity to play the role of Carol in both Japanese and English. I often found myself chuckling at the casual conversations between the characters. I am very much looking forward to sharing the charms of the characters with many more people through the animation!
I will do my best to play the role of Carol so that I can do so!

<Character Information
Class A, 1st year at Uenosui High School. British. She is a distant relative of Misaki's, a childhood friend, and his wife.
She is extremely popular with the boys because of her doll-like appearance and her fluffy, cotton candy-like personality.

Original text

Original story: Shinta Yanagida, Director: Hitoshi Namba

Original story by Fumita Yanagida
Tomo-chan is a girl! My name is Shinta Yanagida, the author of the original story.
It has been seven years since I started the serialization of Tomo-chan. It is true that I was the one who first created the characters, but as the series continued, I felt that a kind of common understanding of "this character's personality" was developing among myself, other editors, and readers, and Tomo and his friends were no longer the product of my own imagination at an early stage. I realized that this was what it meant for the characters to be alive, and when it came to the anime adaptation, the interpretations of the many people involved in the production, including the director, producer, scriptwriter, and voice actors, made the characters seem even more "alive" to me.
Since it has been a while since its completion, I feel that I am now just a viewer who is looking forward to the anime broadcast rather than the author of the original work. I would like to genuinely enjoy the anime "Tomo is a Girl!

Director: Hitoshi Namba
My name is Hitoshi Namba, and I will be directing the anime.
The original work is an adolescent romantic comedy based on the first love between a boyish girl, Tomo-chan, and a clumsy and honest Junichiro.
We cherish the laughter, emotion, and cheer that we felt when we read the original work, and we are proud to be working with our reliable staff and cast to animate the film and make it into an anime.
We are determined to make an anime version of this work with our reliable staff and cast.
We will do our best to make it a work that will satisfy all of our viewers.
We will do our best to make it a work that will satisfy all of our viewers, so please give us your support for the TV anime "Tomo Chan is a Girl! We look forward to your continued support for the "Tomo is a Girl!

Please give us your support for the TV anime "Tomo Chan is a Girl!

Work information
The animation "Tomo Chan is a Girl!
will be released in January 2023 in various regions around the world!
＜Introduction
A youthful love comedy of a boyish girl and an insensitive childhood friend.
The long-awaited anime adaptation has received enthusiastic love calls from around the world!

Since its serialization on Twitter in 2015, theclumsy but straightforward love story betweenthe boyish protagonist and his childhood friend hasbeen supported by many readers, and the comic "Tomo is a Girl! The comic was regrettably completed in 2019.
The long-awaited anime adaptation of the manga, whichwon first place in the Web Manga Division of the "2nd Next Coming Manga Award" and still boasts strong popularity among many fans in Japan andabroad, will finally be adapted into a long-awaited anime!

Tomo (Tomo-chan), a boyish high school girl in love with her childhood friend Junichiro Kubota, wants Junichiro to see her as a "girl," buthe always comes up short. Will Tomo-chan's clumsy girlishness reach Junichiro?

Watch this movie and you will want to support their love.

The year is 2023, and Tomo-chan and her unique friends are about to unfold a "coming-of-age" love comedy.
Tomochan and his unique friends will take the world by storm in this "coming-of-age romantic comedy!

<Staff
Original Story: Shinta Yanagida (Seikaisha COMICS)
Director：Hitoshi Namba ("Golden Kamui" 1st to 3rd seasons, "Ai★Chu" director)
Assistant Director: Noriko Hashimoto ("Heroine Taru Mono! Unlikable Heroine and Secret Work" Director)
Series Composition: Megumi Shimizu ("I've been reincarnated as a villainous young lady with nothing but a doomed flag in an Otome game..." Series Composition)
Character Design: Shiori Hiraiwa
Music: Katsu Yokoyama ("April is Your Lie", "Who Knows the Blue Sky", "Fate/Apocrypha")
Animation Creation: Lay-duce ("Maidens of the Raging Season") Fate/Grand Order -First Order-)

<Cast
Aizawa Satoshi: Takahashi Riie
Junichiro Kubota: Kaito Ishikawa
Gundo Misuzu: Hidaka Rina
Carol Allston: Sally Amagi

■Re-printing of the original manga begins!
Starting at 12:00 p.m. on Monday, July 4, 2022, a daily "re-run" of the original manga "Tomo-chan wa shojo! will start a daily "re-run" of the original manga "Tomo is a Girl!", which will be tweeted daily at 12:00 noon on the Twitter account "Tsui4" ( @twi_yon ).
Let's enjoy the manga until the TV anime starts airing in January 2023.

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