The TV anime adaptation of Mogusu’s “Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui” / “It’s Disgusting to Call This Love” (恋と呼ぶには気持ち悪い) “age-gap” romantic comedy manga reveals the first PV and main cast. The anime series is confirmed to premiere in April 2021.
Yurie Kozakai plays the protagonist Ichika Arima and Toshiyuki Toyonaga plays as Ryo Amakusa. Other cast members include Rena Hasegawa as Rio Amakusa, Junya Enoki as Kai Tamaru, Kana Hanazawa as Arie Matsushima, and Ryōhei Kimura as Masuda.
▍PV
▍Synopsis
Once you fall for someone, you can’t stop the love.
A strange encounter spurs the meeting of Amakusa Ryou, a high spec businessman who’s loose with women, and his high school sister’s best friend, Arima Ichika. From there, he falls madly in love. On the one hand, he approaches her with almost too straight-forward methods, while she responds simply disgusted, insulting him without hesitation…and he takes it as her way of showing love. This is a romantic comedy about a twisted elite employee and a normal otaku high school girl.
▍Staff and Production
Original Work: Mogusu (もぐす) [comic POOL／Ichijinsha]
Director: Naomi Nakayama (中山奈緒美)
Assistant Director: Taku Yamada (山田 卓)
Series Composition: Yuuko Kakihara (柿原優子)
Character Design & Animation Director: Mariko Fujita (藤田まり子)
Art Director: Masakazu Miyake (三宅昌和)
Color Design: Naoko Kodama (児玉尚子)
Director of Photography: Shinya Matsui (松井伸哉)
Offline Editing: Chinami Watanabe (渡邉千波)
Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi (小泉紀介)
Music: (堤 博明)
Sound Production: Sonilude/BloomZ
Animation Producer: Toru Ikawa (衣川 徹)
Producer: Shunsuke Saito (斎藤俊輔)
Executive Producer: Kouichirou Natsume (夏目公一朗)
Animation: Nomad
▍Cast
■ Ichika Arima (有馬一花) – CV: Yurie Kozakai (小坂井 祐莉絵)
■ Ryo Amakusa (天草 亮) – CV: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (豊永 利行)
■ Rio Amakusa (天草理緒) – CV: Rena Hasegawa (長谷川 玲奈)
■ Kai Tamaru (多丸 快) – CV: Junya Enoki (榎木 淳弥)
■ Arie Matsushima (松島有枝) – CV: Kana Hanazawa (花澤 香菜)
■ Masuda (益田) – CV: Ryōhei Kimura (木村 良平)