The Kirio Fan Club TV anime has received its first trailer and a key visual, as well as an April premiere window.
More cast members were also announced:
• Yuya Hirose as Mitsuru Manda
• Jin Ogasawara as Hayato Momose
• Ayasa Ito as Satsuki Muraoka
• Fuka Izumi as Seira Tashiro
Additionally, there are some new staff announcements, among them main key animator Kikuko Sadakata (Twin Star Exorcists character designer).
Kirio Fan Club is based on the manga by Chikyuu no Osakana Ponchan, with the premise involving two girls who like the same guy. The anime’s official description reads:
Dear Kirio-kun, I like you.
But I didn’t know…
That liking someone could be this painful.
I really, really like you, Kirio-kun.
I want to eat hamburgers with you.
I want to share an umbrella with you.
I want to smash plates together with you.
I want to go on a journey searching for every mole on your body.
I want the day I met you to be a national holiday.
Aimi and Nami, sharing their thoughts about the person they love—these are their precious moments together.
They thought these ordinary days would last forever.
But this chain of one-sided feelings is about to change their everyday life.
©Chikyu no Osakana Ponchan, Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha/ Kirio Fan Club Anime Production Committee
The Kirio Fan Club manga made its debut on Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha’s COMIC Ruelle in 2022 and released its sixth and final volume in September 2024. It has inspired a live-action drama adaptation.
Staff
• Director: So Toyama (The Apothecary Diaries Episode 16 storyboard artist and director)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Aya Satsuki (Solo Camping for Two)
• Character designer: Nami Hayashi (Tasuketsu -Fate of the Majority)
• Animation production: SATELIGHT
Cast
• Nene Hieda as Aimi
• Shion Wakayama as Nami
• Gakuto Kajiwara as Kirio
Source: Press release
