With the August issue of home magazine Bessatsu Friend and volume 9 out in Japan on July 13, after they leaked out a little early, the cast has been introduced for fall's TV anime adaptation of Junko's Kiss Him, Not Me. Of note, a cast lead by Kana Hanazawa in a 2015 audio drama is being replaced by one lead by voice actress/artist/fashionista Yuu Kobayashi (Attack in Titan's Sasha, Monster Musume's Smith).

Kobayashi self-potrait

Peach Girl's Hiroshi Ishiodori directs the Brain's Base production. Michiko Yokote (Sekko Boys, Shirobako, Squid Girl) writes series composition with Kazuhiko Tamura (RINNE) on character design and Mina Ozawa (Actually, I Am…) as chief animation director.





Cast

Kae Serinuma - Yuu Koboyashi (previously Kana Hanazawa)



Hayato Shinomiya - Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (previously Hiroshi Kamiya)



Yusuke Igarashi - Yuki Oni (previously Yoshimasa Hosoya)



Asuma Mutsumi - Nobunaga Shimazaki (previously Takahiro Sakurai)



Nozomu Nanashima - Keisuke Koumoto (previously Tatsuhisa Suzuki)





Shima Nishina - Miyuki Sawashiro (previously Chinatsu Akasaki)





















The manga can be read on Crunchyroll Manga. It's described Kae Serinuma is what you'd call a "fujoshi." When she sees boys getting along with each other, she loves to indulge in wild fantasies! One day her favorite anime character dies and the shock causes her to lose a ton of weight. Then four hot guys at school ask her out, but that isn't exciting to her at all — she'd rather see them date each other! via Natalie





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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.