A new key visual (above) and new cast additions have been revealed for Ao-chan Can't Study! (known in Japan as Midarana Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai), an upcoming TV anime based on the romantic comedy manga by Ren Kawahara about a girl who tries to be a proper student but whose academic prospects are plagued from all sides by romantic distractions.

The new cast members for Ao-chan Can't Study! include:

Juri Kimura as Miyabi Takaoka.

Takashi Kondō as Souichirou Yabe.









Yusuke Shirai as Masaki Uehara.









And Toshinari Fukamachi as Shuhei Yonezuka.

The original Ao-chan Can't Study! manga is serialized in Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine Edge magazine, and an English language version is also available from Kodansha Comics, who describe the story as follows:

When Ao was in kindergarten, she smiled ear-to-ear as she told her classmates how her father (a bestselling erotic author) chose her name: “A as in apple and O as in orgy!” That day still haunts her ten years later as she studies with a single goal in mind: get into an elite university and achieve independence from her father once and for all. She has no youth to misspend and no time to think about boys … until her classmate, “King Normie” Kijima, approaches her with a shocking confession of love. She tries to lose Kijima, but he just can’t take a hint … and as her mind runs wild with impure thoughts, she realizes her father has totally influenced her!

The Ao-chan Can't Study! TV anime is directed by Keisuke Inoue and features animation production by SILVER LINK.. The series will broadcast in Japan beginning in April of 2019.

Sources:

Ota-suke

Comic Natalie

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