Now That We Draw Anime Gets First Trailer And January 2027 Premiere
The staff list is mostly production-side names disclosed at once, and ROLL2 and Infinite handing the adaptation shows the committee is building it as a rom-com rather than a prestige title.
Key Facts
- The Now That We Draw anime premieres in January 2027, announced with the first full promotional video on Thursday.
- Shunsuke Ishikawa directs the Now That We Draw anime at ROLL2, with Deko Akao on series composition and Hiromi Nakagawa on character design.
- Ayumu Murase voices Yuki Uehara and Sayumi Suzushiro voices Niina Miyamoto in the Now That We Draw anime.
- The Now That We Draw manga runs in Hakusensha's Young Animal, and the eighth Japanese volume is scheduled for September 29.
- Seven Seas Entertainment licensed Now That We Draw and published the fourth volume in English in February.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
The television anime of Kyu Takahata and Yuji Kaba's Now That We Draw manga released its first full promotional video and character visuals on Thursday, and the video sets a January 2027 premiere. Shunsuke Ishikawa is directing at ROLL2, with Deko Akao supervising and writing the series scripts and Hiromi Nakagawa designing the characters. The newly announced staff includes Sub-Character Design by Momoka Izumi, Color Key Artist Yurie Matsuura, Art Director Arei Saiga, Compositing Director of Photography Hayato Kifune, 3D CG by Masashi Watanabe, Editing by Mai Hasegawa, Sound Director Fumiyuki Go, Sound Effects by Ryuta Nakahara, and Music by Yoshiaki Miura, with Infinite producing. Ayumu Murase and Sayumi Suzushiro star as Yuki Uehara and Niina Miyamoto, the two aspiring manga creators who agree to a fake relationship to gain the romantic experience their work lacks. The manga runs in Hakusensha's Young Animal. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed it, and the eighth Japanese volume is due September 29.
The trailer follows a key visual that ran in March, and the character posters for Yuki Uehara and Niina Miyamoto went out alongside the video. Yuki is voiced by Ayumu Murase and Niina by Sayumi Suzushiro, both of whom appear in the trailer footage.
Shunsuke Ishikawa's directing credit sits next to BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-, while Deko Akao's script credits include Arakawa Under the Bridge and Komi Can't Communicate. Hiromi Nakagawa, the character designer, worked on WATATEN!: an Angel Flew Down to Me and Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence. Hayato Kifune is credited as Compositing Director of Photography with EOTA noted.
The manga has run in Hakusensha's Young Animal since February 2023. Seven Seas published the fourth volume in English in February. Its description of the premise frames the pair as opposites: Yuki's invented heroine is "bashful, airheaded, and completely chaste," and the editor at his dream publisher calls his story "trite and lacking realism," which sends him into a spiral before Niina proposes the fake relationship.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.