We learned last fall that the Real Girl manga from Mao Nanami is getting an anime adaptation and it’s been fleshed out a decent bit so far. The latest update has landed as it’s set for the spring 2018 season with an April premiere as we now have the main cast for it confirmed below. Takashi Naoya is directing it based on the series composition by Deko Akao. Satomi Kurita is handling the character designs and Hoods Entertainment is handling the animation production.
- Yuu Serizawa as Iroha Igarashi
- Teppei Uenishi as Hikari Tsutsui
- Shouta Aoi as Yuuto Itou
- Minami Tsuda as Arisa Ishino
- Takuma Terashima as Mitsuya Takanashi
- Reina Ueda as Sumie Ayado
The show has plenty of manga material to work with as it ran for twelve volumes before finishing up in the spring of 2016. A live-action feature is scheduled for 2018.
Plot Concept: Tsutsui Hikari is an otaku, and he mostly avoids social life. Hikari has only one friend at school, who is also a social misfit, and he is mocked brutally by most of his classmates for being creepy and weird. One day, he ends up having to clean the school pool with Igarashi Iroha, who appears to be pretty much everything he hates in real-life girls. She skips school, has a blunt manner, doesn’t have female friends, and seems the sort to be promiscuous. However, she is friendly to Hikari, and even stands up to the people who make fun of him. Hikari’s bitterness and trust issues lead him to say pretty harsh things to Iroha, but she never dismisses him as creepy. After a while, it starts to look like Iroha may become his first real-life, 3D girlfriend! Will he be able to handle it?
[Source: Comic Natalie]
