The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All Anime Debuts January 8
Aniplex confirmed the adaptation's full cast and premiere in a single drop, which means the production is far enough along to lock a broadcast slot rather than stage the reveal across separate events.
Key Facts
- The anime adaptation of The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All premieres January 8 at 11:00 p.m. JST on NTV's FuraAni programming block.
- CloverWorks animates the series with Masashi Ishihama directing and Rino Yamazaki on series composition.
- Kenjiro Tsuda voices Jo and Tasuku Hatanaka voices Narita, both reprising their roles from the series' audio drama.
- Yurina Amami, Fairouz Ai, and Maiko Nomura join the cast as Chizuru, Mao, and Kanna.
- Nirvana's 1991 song "Breed" is the opening theme, and Crunchyroll streams the anime as it airs.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
Aniplex released the first promotional video for the anime adaptation of Sumiko Arai's The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All on Friday, along with additional cast and staff credits and a January 8 premiere. CloverWorks animates the series, with Masashi Ishihama directing and Rino Yamazaki handling series composition. Kenjiro Tsuda and Tasuku Hatanaka reprise their roles from the audio drama as Jo and Narita. Yurina Amami joins as Chizuru, Fairouz Ai as Mao, and Maiko Nomura as Kanna. Akari Kito voices Aya Osawa and Mariya Ise voices Mitsuki Koga. The anime airs on NTV's FuraAni programming block at 11:00 p.m. JST, and Crunchyroll streams it as it airs. Kanna Hirayama designs the characters, and Kosuke Noma and Takayuki "Kojiro" Sasaki compose the music. The opening theme is Nirvana's 1991 song "Breed."
The manga moved from a short story posted to Arai's X account in 2021 into a weekly web manga in April 2022, then to pixiv Comic serialization in April 2023. Kadokawa Shoten publishes the print edition and shipped the fourth compiled volume on February 19, while Yen Press handles the English release and put out the third volume in December 2025.
Recognition came before the anime did. The series took the web manga category at the 2023 Next Manga Award. It ranked second on the 23rd Da Vinci Book of the Year list and second among manga for female readers in the 2024 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook. Fans shorten the title to KiniOto and call it the Green Yuri for its green palette.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.