The opening and ending animations of Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian have been released on the anime’s YouTube channel.
Both of these sequences happen to have key people from the OSHI NO KO production team as their storyboard artists and directors. OSHI NO KO assistant director Ciao Nekotomi is credited on Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian‘s opening, which recalls the energy and delightfulness of her previous opening animation work for Shikimori’s Not Just A Cutie and goes all-out during the chorus. Meanwhile, compositing director Takafumi Kuwano showed up for the ED and fittingly has a compositing credit for it too.
The opening song is “Ichiban Kagayaku Hoshi” by Sumire Uesaka as Alya, while the ending song is “Gakuen Tengoku” (also by an in-character Uesaka). To be more accurate, “Gakuen Tengoku” is the ending song for just the first episode, as listed in the video’s description.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian is an adaptation of the KADOKAWA Sneaker Bunko light novel series written by Sunsunsun and illustrated by Momoko. It begin airing in Japan on July 3 JST and is streaming on Crunchyroll, Ani-One Asia, and Bilibili.
Yen Press describes the source material as:
Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou is Seiren Private Academy’s “solitary princess.” She’s a half-Russian beauty with silver hair, at the top of her class, student council accountant, and…completely unapproachable. For some reason, she’s also taken on the responsibility of reprimanding the slacker who sits next to her in class. Masachika Kuze is constantly frustrating her by falling asleep, forgetting his textbooks, and just being an overall unexemplary student. Or at least, that’s how it looks from the outside. She may put on a tough act, but she doesn’t mind Masachika as much as others would think. She even lets him call her by her nickname, Alya. Anyone hearing the comments she mutters in Russian under her breath might know how she really feels, but since none of her classmates understand the language, she’s free to say whatever she likes! Except…there is one person who knows what she’s saying. Masachika eavesdrops on her embarrassing revelations, pretending to be clueless, all the while wondering what her flirtatious comments actually mean!
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian was originally a 2020 Shousetsuka ni Narou short story. The light novel series started in 2021 and has nine volumes, including a short story collection, as of February 2024. A Kodansha-published manga adaptation by Saho Tenamachi started serialization in 2022.
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Staff
• Director and series composer: Ryota Ito (Shikimori’s Not Just A Cutie and My Senpai is Annoying director)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Yuhei Murota (Love Live! Sunshine!!)
• Art director: Risa Wakabayashi (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War)
• Color designer: Yuka Ito (Shikimori’s Not Just A Cutie)
• Compositing director: Seiichi Sugiura (Saint Cecilia & Pastor Lawrence)
• Music composer: Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Burn The Witch＃0.8)
• Animation production: Doga Kobo
Cast
• Sumire Uesaka as Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou (Alya)
• Kohei Amasaki as Masachika Kuze
• Yukiyo Fujii as Maria Mikhailovna Kujou (Masha)
• Wakana Maruoka as Yuki Suou
• Saya Aizawa as Ayano Kimishima
• Maki Kawase as Chisaki Sarashina
• Kaito Ishikawa as Touya Kenzaki
• Ikumi Hasegawa as Sayaka Taniyama
• Yoshino Aoyama as Nonoa Miyamae
• Kodai Sakai as Takeshi Maruyama
• Taichi Ichikawa as Hikaru Kiyomiya
Source: Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian YouTube channel