The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy at All Anime's 1st Promo Video Reveals More Cast/Staff, January 8 Premiere
Aniplex unveiled on Friday the first promotional video, more cast and staff, and January 8 premiere for the anime adaptation of Sumiko Arai's The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All (Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta) manga:
Crunchyroll streamed an English-subtitled trailer at New York Comic Con:
The newly announced cast includes:
Kōsuke Noma and Takayuki "Kojiro" Sasaki are composing the music.
The anime will debut on January 8 at 11:00 p.m. JST on NTV's FuraAni programming block.
The cast includes Akari Kitō as Aya Ōsawa, and Mariya Ise as Mitsuki Koga.
Masashi Ishihama (From the New World, Garakowa -Restore the World-, Horimiya) is directing the anime. CloverWorks will animate the series. Rino Yamazaki (Akebi's Sailor Uniform, The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, Spy×Family season 3) is in charge of series composition. Kanna Hirayama (Rent-A-Girlfriend, Oshi no Ko) is designing the characters.
The opening theme is the 1991 song "Breed" by grunge band Nirvana.
Yen Press licensed the manga and released the third volume in December 2025. Yen Press describes the manga's story:
Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya falls head over heels for an employee at a local CD shop. He's got an air of mystery about him, great style, and an impeccable music taste. Little does she know—this supposedly male employee is actually her female classmate Mitsuki! Mitsuki generally keeps to herself, but since her seat is right next to Aya's, she can't help but be extremely aware of the other's crush. Revealing the truth is out of the question for Mitsuki—but perhaps getting closer to Aya wouldn't be so bad…
Arai launched the series as a manga on Twitter (later known as X) in April 2022 before serializing on pixiv Comic in April 2023. Kadokawa Shoten publishes the series in print and shipped the fourth compiled book volume on February 19.
The series ranked #2 on the 23rd annual Da Vinci "Book of the Year" list and #2 for top manga for female readers on the 2024 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.
Source: Press release
Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.KioskNews shows a cleaned-up reading view extracted from the publisher’s page — the original always lives on their site, not ours.