A new “losing heroine” visual has been unveiled for the currently airing Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! TV anime series, featuring Anna Yanami. The anime first premiered in Japan on July 14, 2024 and is streaming on Crunchyroll worldwide, outside of Japan.
The visual shows a jealous Anna hiding behind a tree as she looks on at her friends Sosuke and Karen in the distant background.
Shotaro Kitamura (Overtake! Episode 4 and Shaman King Flowers Episode 5 storyboard artist and director) is directing the anime adaptation, with Masahiro Yokotani (Ohmuro-ke: Dear Sisters) as series screenwriter, Tetsuya Kawakami (86 Eighty-Six) as character designer, Yuu Saito (Warlords of Sigrdrifa Episode 4 ending animation character designer) as sub-character designer, Ayaka Murakami (Sword Art Online -Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night) as color designer, Yuuki Hatakeyama (The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes) as art director, Yohei Miyawaki (Fate／strange Fake Whispers of Dawn) as compositing director, and Kana Utatane (Overtake!) as music composer. A-1 Pictures is in charge of the animation production.
Miura Takumitsu, Akane Takeda, and Mirai Kawashima (Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Ultra Romantic in-between animation checker) are credited as main animators in the series.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast include:
- • Shuichiro Umeda as Kazuhiko Nukumizu
- • Hikaru Tono as Anna Yanami
- • Shion Wakayama as Lemon Yakishio
- • Momoka Terasawa as Chika Komari
The anime is based on the romantic comedy light novels, written by Takibi Amamori and illustrated by Imigimuru. It was first published by Gagaga Bunko on July 21, 2021 and has released seven volumes as of July 2024, along with a short story collection. The light novels won the Gagaga Award at the 15th Shogakukan Light Novel Taisho event.
The series also inspired a manga adaptation by Itachi, which has been serialized on Shogakukan’s Ura Sunday website and MangaONE app since April 29, 2022. Three tankobon volumes have been released as of July 2024.
Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the Too Many Losing Heroines! light novel and manga in English later this Fall 2024. It describes the main synopsis as:
Plain, boring, and friendless Nukumizu Kazuhiko has witnessed something completely baffling: popular girl Yanami Anna was friend-zoned by her childhood friend and crush! In fact, all the popular girls around him are getting similarly rejected by the boys they like. Without realizing it, Kazuhiko becomes entangled in the relationship drama where all the leading heroines are losing out on love! Can he keep their spirits up and help them find happiness?
Source: Makeine Official Anime Twitter
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