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I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class Anime's 2nd Video Reveals More Staff, January 3 TV Debut
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Aniplex posted the second full promotional video and second key visual for the television anime of Seiju Amano's I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class (Class no Dai Kirai na Joshi to Kekkon suru Koto ni Natta.) story on Wednesday. The video announces more staff members and the January 3 premiere for the anime, and it also previews the idol group =LOVE's opening theme song "Koibito Ijō, Suki Miman" (More Than Lovers, Less Than Love, a tongue-in-cheek nod to a typical Japanese translation for the English phrase "more than friends, less than lovers.")
The newly announced staff members are:
- Sub-Character Design: Masaru Koseki
- Chief Animation Directors: Nanako Tatsu, Masaru Koseki, Song Hyeon-ju
- Main Prop Design: Shigeyuki Koresawa (Digital Noise), Light Dream (Digital Noise), Yūsuke Sakai (Digital Noise)
- Cuisine Animation Director: Waruo Suzuki
- Art Setting: Michiru Odaka (Digital Noise)
- Art Director: Ryōsuke Obokata
- Color Key Artist: Yoko Suzuki
- Compositing Director of Photography: Hisashi Matsumuko
- Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya
- Sound Director: Fumihiko Ootera
- Animation Production Producer: Tetsuya Tomioka
The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 channels on January 3 at 11:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EST), and it will also run on MBS and TV Aichi.
The anime stars:
- Hinaki Yano as Akane Sakuramori
- Shōgo Sakata as Saito Hōjō
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Himari Ishikura
- Nene Hieda as Shisei Hojo
- Hōchū Ohtsuka as Tenryu Hojo
- Fumi Hirano as Chiyo Sakuramori
Hiroyuki Oshima (episode director for Kill la Kill, Teasing Master Takagi-san) is directing the anime at Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ. Tatsuya Takahashi (The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, Domestic Girlfriend, Idoly Pride) is overseeing the series scripts, Nanako Tatsu (Date A Live IV, Date A Live V assistant character design) is designing the characters, and Arisa Okehazama (Jujutsu Kaisen, The Apothecary Diaries) is composing the music. EGG FIRM is producing the series.
Hinaki Yano performs the ending theme song "Suki Kirai mo Oikoshite" (Overtaking Love and Hate).
The Class no Dai Kirai na Joshi to Kekkon suru Koto ni Natta. story first launched in March 2020 as a YouTube manga on the Manga Angel Neko Oka channel, where it has over 3 million views. Amano is the YouTube manga scriptwriter, and Mosskonbu is in charge of illustration.
Kadokawa published the light novel series' first volume in December 2020, with illustration by Nanami Narumi. The novels' ninth volume shipped on August 23. Mosskonbu launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Shōnen Ace Plus web manga magazine in May 2021. Kadokawa published the manga's first compiled book volume in December 2021, and the sixth volume on February 26.
Sources: Email correspondence
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