'Danjo no Yūjō wa Seiritsu Suru? Iya, Shinai!!' Anime Reveals 1st Promo Video, More Cast

The staff for the television anime of Nana Nanana and Parum's Danjo no Yūjō wa Seiritsu Suru? Iya, Shinai!! (Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Hold Up? (No, it Can't!!)) light novel series revealed the first trailer along with more staff and cast members on Sunday.The trailer previews HoneyWorks' opening theme song feat. HaKoniwalily "Shitsumon, Koitte Nandeshō ka?" (Question: What is Love?). Kō Bonkobara plays playboy Shinji Makishima, Yū's only friend aside from Himari. Masaaki Mizunaka plays Himari's older brother Hibari Inuzuka, a handsome eccentric who dotes on Yū as his "big brother." Hisako Kanemoto plays Yū's unfortunately beautiful older sister Sakura Natsume, who was also classmates with Hibari. Jun Ichikawa (Rental Magica, Seven Days War, Engaged to the Unidentified) is composing the music at Pony Canyon. Dream Shift is producing the series. Jin Aketagawa (Dr. Stone, Golden Kamuy, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) is the sound director at Magic Capsule.The anime stars: Youhei Suzuki (Million Arthur) is directing the series at J.C. Staff, Nozu Yaemori is handling the series composition, and Natsuki Ōyama is designing the characters. HoneyWorks feat. HaKoniwalily will perform the opening song "Shitsumon, Koitte Nandeshō ka?" (Question: What is Love?), and Hina Tachibana will perform the ending theme song "Dear my Soleil."The romantic comedy novels center on the relationship between Himari Inuzuka and the flower-loving Yū Natsume, who swore to be friends forever during middle school. They spend their time together happily even until high school. But when Yū's first love reappears in his life, their relationship slowly becomes more chaotic, and Himari and Yū's relationship slowly turns into something else.Nanana launched the light novel series with its first volume in January 2021, with illustrations by Parum. Kadokawa released the 10th novel volume on December 10. Kamelie launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine in August 2021. Kadokawa published the manga's fourth compiled book volume on November 27.Source: Press release