Additional cast and staff have also been revealed.
The Crunchyroll Showcase at this year's New York Comic Con has unveiled additional cast, staff, and a promotional video for The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All, along with its 8 January, 2027 premiere.
The anime is set to broadcast on NTV's Friday Anime Night timeslot, while Crunchyroll will simulcast the series online. Territories are yet to be confirmed.
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All anime
Release date: 8 January, 2027
Animation studio: Cloverworks
Streaming service: Crunchyroll
Who are the additional cast members joining “The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All”?
The additional cast joining the anime are:
- Joe: Kenjiro Tsuda
- Narita: Tasuku Hatanaka
- Chizuru: Yurina Amami
- Mao: Fairouz Ai
- Kanna: Maiko Nomura
While the main cast are:
- Mitsuki Koga: Mariya Ise
- Aya Osawa: Akari Kito
Mariya Ise and Akari Kito reprise their roles from the Drama CD, along with Kenjirou Tsuda and Tasuku Hatanaka.
Who is working on The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All?
Kouseke Noma and Takayuki “Koujirou” Sasaki are joining the anime as music composers.
Masashi Ishihama is directing the anime at CloverWorks, with Rino Yamazaki handling series composition and Kanna Hirayama designing the characters.
Iconic American grunge band Nirvana provides the Opening Theme song for the anime, “Breed”. Breed was released as the fourth song of the band's second studio album, “Nevermind”, which was released in September 1991. The song was written by the band's former frontman, Kurt Corbain.
What is The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All about?
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All is a manga series that originally began as a web series on X/Twitter back in 2022, created by author-artist Sumiko Arai. The manga is currently serialised by Pixiv Comic, and has been in print by Kadokawa Shoten since April 2023. Four volumes of the manga are available in Japan.
This is not the first adaptation of the manga, however, as a drama CD adaptation was also released in April 2024.
Yen Press publishes an English version of the manga, and describes the story as:
“Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya loves listening to rock, but no one else seems to share her interest…until she meets a cool, stylish employee at a CD shop. Dressed in black from head to toe, he has this air of mystery about him, and his taste in music is impeccable. Aya falls hard for him—not knowing her crush is actually her female classmate Mitsuki! For her part, Mitsuki generally keeps to herself and avoids standing out at school. But given that she sits right next to Aya, Mitsuki’s all too aware of the other girl’s feelings, and she’s afraid to reveal the truth. So why does she find herself talking with Aya more and more…?”