Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms Anime’s New Video Reveals January 6 Debut, Theme Songs

The staff for the television anime of Ran Kuze‘s Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms (Kuroiwa Medaka ni Watashi no Kawaii ga Tsūjinai) manga began its full promotional video on Saturday. The video announces the series’ January 6 premiere, and it also announces and previews the opening and ending theme songs.

The trailer previews the opening theme song “Ame Tokimeki Koi Moyō” (Heart-Fluttering Rainy Love Pattern) by AyaFubuMi, a VTuber subunit comprised of Hololive talents Nakiri Ayame, Shirakami Fubuki, and Ookami Mio. The trailer also previews the ending theme song “Kyunapi” by Kaori Maeda.

The anime held an advance screening of its first episode on December 7 at United Cinemas Toyosu in Tokyo.

The anime will premiere on the TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Setouchi, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd. on January 6, with new episodes airing every Monday at 24:00 JST (effectively, Tuesday at midnight).

The anime stars:

• Yū Serizawa as Mona Kawai
• Ryōta Iwasaki as Medaka Kuroiwa
• Sora Amamiya as Asahi Shonan
• Kana Hanazawa as Tsubomi Haruno
• Hinaki Yano as Tomo Namba

Yoshiaki Okumura (The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made, Elementhunters, Monsuno) is directing the anime at Synergy SP. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (By the Grace of the Gods, Dropkick on My Devil!, Shangri-La Frontier) is in charge of series scripts, Mayumi Watanabe (Too Cute Crisis, Taisho Otome Fairy Tale) is designing the characters, and Akiyuki Tateyama (Laid-Back Camp, The Elusive Samurai) is composing the music. Noriyoshi Konuma (A Few Moments of Cheers film) is the sound director, Aiko Yamagami (Medalist) is in charge of color design, Tetsuya Nishimura (The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids) from Studio Elle is the compositing director of photography, and Masakazu Miyake (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation) is the art director.

Kodansha USA Publishing publishes the manga in English digitally and physically. The company describes the story:

Mona is the cutest girl in school, and she knows it. In fact, she’s worked hard to make her high school debut successful. But no matter what she does, she can’t seem to catch the eye of stone-cold stoic Medaka Kuroiwa—but she’s not about to give up that easy. Medaka, on the other hand, has been raised at a temple and was told to never become close to women. Who will win in this heated battle of wills?

Kuze (Tokyo Ravens: Sword of Song) first published the manga as a one-shot story in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine in December 2020. The manga started its full serialization in the magazine in May 2021. Kodansha published the manga’s first compiled book volume in Japan in August 2021, and the 16th volume shipped on October 17.

Sources: DMM Pictures‘ YouTube channel, Comic Natalie