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Aniplus Asia Airs Simulcast of Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Aniplus Asia announced on Thursday that it will air a simulcast of Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?, the television anime of Nana Nanana and Parum's Danjo no Yūjō wa Seiritsu Suru? Iya, Shinai!! (Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Hold Up? (No, it Can't!!)) light novel series. The simulcast will premiere on April 4.
The anime stars:
- Kikunosuke Toya as Yū Natsume
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Himari Inuzuka
- Yuka Nukui as Rion Enomoto
- Kō Bonkobara as Shinji Makishima
- Masaaki Mizunaka as Hibari Inuzuka
- Hisako Kanemoto as Sakura Natsume
Youhei Suzuki (Million Arthur) is directing the series at J.C. Staff, Nozu Yaemori is handling the series composition, and Natsuki Ōyama is designing the characters.
Jun Ichikawa (Rental Magica, Seven Days War, Engaged to the Unidentified) is composing the music at Pony Canyon. Dream Shift is producing the series. Jin Aketagawa (Dr. Stone, Golden Kamuy, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) is the sound director at Magic Capsule.
HoneyWorks feat. HaKoniwalily will perform the opening song "Shitsumon, Koitte Nandeshō ka?" (Question: What is Love?), and Hina Tachibana will perform the ending theme song "Dear my Soleil."
The romantic comedy novels center on the relationship between Himari Inuzuka and the flower-loving Yū Natsume, who swore to be friends forever during middle school. They spend their time together happily even until high school. But when Yū's first love reappears in his life, their relationship slowly becomes more chaotic, and Himari and Yū's relationship slowly turns into something else.
Nanana launched the light novel series with its first volume in January 2021, with illustrations by Parum. Kadokawa will release the 11th novel volume on April 10. Kamelie launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine in August 2021. Kadokawa published the manga's fourth compiled book volume on November 27.
