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Sexy Zone performs theme song “Kimi no Sei” for April anime
The official website for the television anime of Megumi Morino‘s A Condition Called Love (Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai) manga began streaming a new promotional video for the anime on Wednesday, Valentine’s Day. The video reveals the anime’s opening theme song “Kimi no Sei” (It’s Your Fault) by Sexy Zone. The site also unveiled a new visual.
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The anime stars Kana Hanazawa as Hotaru Hinase (right on visual above) and Chiaki Kobayashi as Saki Hananoi (left).
Other cast members include:
Yurika Kubo as Hibiki “Kyō-chan” Asami, Hotaru’s close friend since junior high school
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Maaya Sakamoto as Tsukiha “Shibamū” Shibamura, another of Hotaru’s close friends who offers excellent advice
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Ryohei Kimura as Sōhei Yao, Hotaru’s classmate from elementary school
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Ryota Ohsaka as Keigo Kurata, Kyō-chan’s boyfriend
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The anime will premiere in April 2024 on TBS‘ 28 affiliate channels at 11:56 p.m. JST.
Tomoe Makino (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, Kotaro Lives Alone) is directing the anime at East Fish Studio. Hitomi Amamiya (Merc Storia: The Apathetic Boy and the Girl in a Bottle, Chillin’ in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army) is supervising and writing the series scripts, and Akiko Satō (Trigun Stampede) is designing the characters.
Other staff members include:
- Music: yamazo
- Sound Director: Fumihiko Ootera
- Art Director: Yōko Nakao
- Color Key Artists: Nanami Emoto, Katsumi Mochida, Yoshimi Kawakami
- Compositing Director of Photography: Takuya Niwa
- Editing: Kazuhiro Nii
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Kodansha USA Publishing started publishing the manga in English digitally in 2020. The company published the manga’s first compiled book volume physically in English in January 2023, and released the sixth volume on January 23. Kodansha USA Publishing describes the manga’s story:
Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, sitting in the snow after a messy, public breakup, she thinks nothing of offering to share her umbrella. But when he asks her out in the middle of her classroom the next day, she can’t help but feel that her life is about to change in a big way …
Morino launched the manga in Kodansha‘s Monthly Dessert magazine in December 2017. Kodansha published the manga’s 14th compiled book volume in November 2023. The manga has over 3.8 million copies in circulation. The manga won the Best Shōjo Manga award in Kodansha‘s 45th Manga Awards in 2021.
Sources: A Condition Called Love anime’s website, Comic Natalie
