Short Poetry-themed Manga Senryu Shoujo Gets TV Anime in Spring 2019


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It is confirmed today that a TV anime adaptation of Masakuni Igarashi's senryu-themed romance comedy

manga Senryu Shoujo / Senryu Girl is set to premiere in Japan in the spring of 2019. The anime 's official

website and Twitter Also, we are introducing with a teaser visual introducing its protagonist girl Nanako Yukishiro.

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Masato Jinbo (CHAOS; CHILD, Restaurant to Another World) serves as director / series composition writer

alongside anime character designer Maki Hashimoto (Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody chief

animation director). CONNECT (Strike The Blood) works on anime production.

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29-year-old popular voice actress Kana Hanazawa (Red Blood Cell AE 3803 in Cells at Work!) is confirmed

to voice the protagonist Nanako Yukishiro. She already played the 15-year-old high school girl in the manga's

three-minute PV produced in July 2017.

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Key visual

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The manga author also announced the news on Twitter:

"The anime adaptation of 'Senryu Shoujo' is decided! It all thanks to the fans who have supported this manga,

thank you so much! Nanako is voiced by Kana Hanazawa-san! "and" You will be able to watch animated Nanako

in 2019 !! "

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The manga has been serialized in Kodasha's Weekly Shonen Magazine since October 2016, and its latest

seventh tankobon volume is set to be released on December 17, 2018. Its total print run in Japan has

surpassed 500,000 copies.

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Senryu is a type of Japanese short poetry similar to to haiku, but does not need to include a kigo / season word.

The story of Senryu Shoujo follows Nanako Yukishiro, who expresses her thought and feeling by writing senryu.

On the Christmas day when she was in the third grade at junior high, she joined a senryu gathering and met

Eiji Busujima, who was the same age as Nanako and an ex-delinquent boy. Nanako touched his kindness

and had friendly sentiments to him. The two later passed the same high school and join its literary club

together.

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Manga tankobon 1st and 6th volume covers

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PV featuring Kana Hanazawa's voice as Nanako Yukishiro

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Source: TV anime "Senryu Shoujo" official website / Twitter

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© Masakuni Igarashi, KODANSHA / Senryu Shoujo Production Committee

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