MAPPA Produces Fall in Love, You False Angels Anime for 2027
This marks one of MAPPA's rare shojo anime projects, following 2018's Banana Fish and the 2025 Rose of Versailles film, signaling the studio's continued investment in the demographic after its recent award-winning shojo manga adaptation.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
MAPPA announced during its 15th anniversary lineup reveal livestream on June 19 that it is producing a television anime adaptation of Coco Uzuki's shojo manga Fall in Love, You False Angels, set for a 2027 release. Yasutomo Okamoto directs the series, with Mariko Oka handling character design, Yōhei Yamazaki as series script supervisor, and Yuriko Waki as animation producer. The manga, which debuted in Kodansha's Dessert magazine in April 2023, won the 49th Kodansha Manga Award in the shojo category in 2025 and was nominated for the Shogakukan Manga Awards that same year. Kodansha USA publishes the English version. The story follows high school class president Otogi Katsura, who maintains a perfect angelic image while hiding her brash true personality, and her vice president Toki Ninomae, who reveals a hidden side of his own. The seventh compiled volume shipped in Japan on June 12.
- Yasutomo Okamoto directs the series, with Mariko Oka as character designer, Yōhei Yamazaki as series script supervisor, and Yuriko Waki as animation producer.
- Additional staff includes art director Takumi Hashimoto, color key artist Kana Tanabe, compositing director of photography Shunsuke Taniguchi, and editor Ayumu Takahashi.
- The teaser promotional video was released during the livestream but was later made private on YouTube as of 8:20 a.m. EDT on June 19.
- Kodansha USA publishes the English version, describing the story as a romance between two high school students who each hide their true personalities.
- The manga has ranked in the top 20 on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook for female readers in multiple years.
- MAPPA's 15th anniversary presentation also included updates on Chainsaw Man International Assassins Arc, Dorohedoro Season 3, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4, and segments on Attack on Titan Final Season, Oblivion Battery, and Ranma 1/2.
- The studio previously animated Banana Fish in 2018, which was serialized in the shojo magazine Bessatsu Shojo Comic, and the 2025 film The Rose of Versailles.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.