A TV anime adaptation of the Now That We Draw (Kakunaru Ue wa) manga has been unveiled with a teaser trailer and teaser visual.
Ayumu Murase and Sayumi Suzushiro respectively star as Yuki Uehara and Nina Miyamoto, aspiring manga artists and classmates who wind up in a fake relationship for the sake of their manga-making efforts. Shunsuke Ishikawa (Blue Lock The Movie -Episode Nagi-) is directing the show at ROLL2, with character designs from Hiromi Nakagawa (Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence, WATATEN!: an Angel Flew Down to Me) and series composition by Deko Akao (May I Ask for One Final Thing?).
The Now That We Draw manga, written by Kyu Takahata and drawn by Yuwji Kaba, is serialized in Hakusensha’s seinen magazine Young Animal and will release its sixth volume on November 28 in Japan. It debuted in April 2023.
Seven Seas Entertainment describes the premise as such:
Opposites attract in this hysterical rom-com about two high school manga artists who can’t catch a break!
Dweeby high schooler Uehara Yuuki has created the perfect romantic comedy heroine—she’s bashful, airheaded, and completely chaste. When an editor at Uehara’s dream publisher coldly dismisses his manga story as trite and lacking realism, it sends Uehara into a spiral of despair that pushes him into the path of his bubbly, gorgeous classmate, Miyamoto Niina—an aspiring manga artist herself!
Having gotten the similar feedback on her own manga, Miyamoto proposes she and Uehara engage in a fake relationship, since neither of them has any romantic experience. But Miyamoto is far from the perfect heroine Uehara’s concocted, and he certainly isn’t the cocky hero from her story either. Can their wacky relationship turn their manga dreams into reality, or will it lead to even more comic disasters?
Source: @kakunaru_anime