The official website for the television anime
adaptation
of
Shiro Manta
's
My Senpai Is Annoying
(
Senpai ga Uzai K?hai no Hanashi
) manga revealed the show's main cast and October premiere on Monday.
The anime stars
Tomori Kusunoki
as Futaba Igarashi (left in image below) and
Shunsuke Takeuchi
as Harumi Takeda (right).
Ryota Itoh
(episode director for
Sing "Yesterday" for Me
,
Ping Pong
,
Aikatsu Stars!
) is directing the anime at
Doga Kobo
(
Sing "Yesterday" for Me
,
Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
).
Yoshimi Narita
(
Beet the Vandel Buster
,
I★CHU: Halfway Through The Idol
) is overseeing the series scripts,
Shigemitsu Abe
(
Killing Bites
) is the character designer,
Takeshi Takadera
(
Yowamushi Pedal
,
RIN-NE
) is the sound director, and
Hiroaki Tsutsumi
(
Dr. Stone
,
Children of the Whales
) is composing the music.
Seven Seas
is
publishing
the full-color manga in English, and it describes the story:
Igarashi is a hardworking young office lady. Takeda, the senpai above her at work, annoys her constantly--and yet she finds herself growing closer to him. Every day is filled with comic mishaps and romantic moments as Igarashi tries to balance work, life, and love. This full-color manga--which started its life as a webcomic--is sure to charm audiences of workplace comedies like
Aggretsuko
and
The Office
!
Manta launched the manga in 2017, and the manga serializes on the
pixiv Comic
website under the
comic Pool
web magazine banner. The series
won
the web manga division of the Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards in 2018.
Ichijinsha
published the manga's sixth compiled book volume on November 25, and it will publish the seventh volume on April 28. The series has 1 million copies in circulation.
The manga already
inspired
promotional videos for its second, third, and fourth volumes, although the anime project has not confirmed if the videos' cast members are returning for the anime.
Sources:
My Senpai Is Annoying
anime's
website
,
MoCa News