Sayumi Suzushiro is attached to four anime projects announced across 2026, playing Kazusa Suo in Nue's Exorcist, Niina Miyamoto in Now That We Draw, Yukari Maki in Studio Cabana, and Futaba in the Chiikawa film.
Suzushiro's four most recent credits sit in different parts of the release calendar, which is the clearest thing the stories establish about her current position. The Chiikawa film, Eiga Chiikawa: Ningyo no Shima no Himitsu, is the nearest: she plays Futaba, one of two islanders the characters meet, in a film that adapts the manga's 2023 Siren Arc and opens in Japan on July 24. The casting announcement came on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, alongside Momoka Terasawa as Hitoha.
The two 2027 television roles split between a familiar part and a new lead. Studio Cabana brings her back to Yukari Maki, the protagonist she played in a 2022 promotional video for Agri Uma's manga, now directed by Shin'ichiro Ushijima at JUVENAGE with a 2027 premiere. In Now That We Draw, she and Ayumu Murase star as Niina Miyamoto and Yuki Uehara, two aspiring manga creators who agree to a fake relationship to gain the romantic experience their work lacks. Shunsuke Ishikawa directs at ROLL2, and the first full promotional video set a January 2027 premiere.
The furthest out is Nue's Exorcist, announced at a Jump Press livestream with a summer 2027 TV Asahi debut. Suzushiro voices Kazusa Suo alongside Kaito Miura as Gakuro Yajima and Saori Onishi as Nue, under director Hiroyuki Hashimoto at Studio Hibari. The adaptation follows Kota Kawae's manga, which topped AnimeJapan 2025's Manga We Want to See Animated poll.
Across the four, the work is spread among different studios and directors, and the roles range from a returning part in a manga adaptation to a supporting islander in a film. Three of the four titles carry confirmed premiere windows or dates in the stories, and the fourth, Studio Cabana, is dated only to 2027.
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Oct 12
The Jump Press livestream on Monday announced that Kota Kawae's Nue's Exorcist manga is getting a television anime adaptation, set to debut in summer 2027 on TV Asahi. The announcement also revealed a teaser video, a teaser visual, the main cast, and the main staff. Hiroyuki Hashimoto is directing at Studio Hibari. Hiroshi Seko is overseeing series scripts, Shunpei Mochizuki is designing the characters, Takayuki Yamaguchi is the sound director, and MONACA is composing the music. Kaito Miura voices Gakuro Yajima, Saori Onishi voices Nue, and Sayumi Suzushiro voices Kazusa Suo. Kawae launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 2023. Shueisha published the 16th compiled volume on September 4. Viz Media published the eighth volume in English on September 1. The manga topped AnimeJapan 2025's "Manga We Want to See Animated" poll.
Oct 3
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.
Jul 22
Kadokawa announced on Wednesday that Agri Uma's manga Studio Cabana will receive a television anime adaptation premiering in 2027. The announcement included a teaser visual and the main staff and cast. Shin'ichirō Ushijima, known for directing I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and UniteUp!, is directing the series at animation studio JUVENAGE. Sawako Hirabayashi, whose credits include Wolf Girl & Black Prince and Delicious Party♡Precure, is handling series composition. Haruka Sagawa, a character designer for Call of the Night and Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- seasons 3 and 4, is designing the characters. Sayumi Suzushiro, who voices Nijika Ijichi in Bocchi the Rock!, will reprise her role as protagonist Yukari Maki, a part she previously played in a 2022 promotional video for the manga. The staff did not announce the voice actor for the other main character, Yūsuke Kusaka, but released a character visual for him. The manga, which began serialization on Kadokawa's pixiv Sylph online magazine in June 2021, has eight compiled volumes as of November 2025, with a ninth volume scheduled for August 21. Yen Press has licensed the manga for English release, with the first volume arriving in winter 2027.
Jul 21
The official website for the first Chiikawa anime film, Eiga Chiikawa: Ningyo no Shima no Himitsu, announced on Tuesday that Momoka Terasawa and Sayumi Suzushiro have joined the cast as Hitoha and Futaba, two islanders the characters meet. The film adapts the manga's 2023 "Siren Arc" and opens in Japan on July 24.