Yuiko Tokumi’s series Slow Start was announced to be getting an anime adaptation back in May and has released some details about it. With the show scheduled for a winter 2018 debut, we now have the first promotional video for the series that shows off the designs and intent. Hiroyuki Hashimoto, currently on Classroom of the Elite, is set as the director and working from the series composition by Mio Inoue. Masato Yasuno is handling the character designs and A-1 Pictures will be working the animation production.
The property has been serialized in Manga Time Kirara as a four-panel series since the summer of 2013 and has four volumes out so far.
Plot Concept: Hana Ichinose is a normal 16-year-old high school student. However, there is something different about her: She enrolled in high school one year late! Her classmates are unaware of this, and Hana will have to work hard to catch up with everyone else.