The opening animation for TV anime Kirio Fan Club, which began airing on April 2 (effectively April 3 at 12:26 AM JST). has recently been released on the Anime PONY CANYON YouTube channel.
Point PIctures’ Naoki Shirai (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Part 2 opening animation) is credited as storyboard artist and opening director for the sequence, which cycles through various visual ideas and gives the impression of utilizing physical objects for multiple elements. Yuto Nakamura served as the unit director.
The opening song is “FANCLUB” by Skirt and ODD Foot Works.
Kirio Fan Club is an adaptation of the manga by Chikyuu no Osakana Ponchan and follows two girls who share the same crush. The anime’s 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.
The Kirio Fan Club manga debuted 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.
HIDIVE and Ani-One Asia are streaming the anime.
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)
• Main key animator: Kikuko Sadakata (Twin Star Exorcists character designer)
• Animation production: SATELIGHT
Cast
• Nene Hieda as Aimi Miyoshi
• Shion Wakayama as Nami Sometani
• Gakuto Kajiwara as Ken Kirio
Source: Anime PONY CANYON YouTube channel
