Green Yuri anime reveals Mitsuki and Aya visuals
Aniplex revealed new character visuals for Mitsuki Koga and Aya Osawa during its One Focus event, ahead of a January 2027 premiere.
The anime adaptation of The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All has shown off Mitsuki Koga and Aya Osawa in new character visuals, giving the so-called “Green Yuri” another bright green signpost on the road to its January 2027 premiere.
According to Anime Corner, the visuals were revealed during Aniplex’s One Focus event on 12 September. The series is scheduled for January 2027, with Mariya Ise voicing Mitsuki and Akari Kito voicing Aya. Masashi Ishihama is directing at CloverWorks, and Nirvana’s “Breed” is set as the opening theme.
What's actually going on
The adaptation was first announced in February, while its studio and theme song were revealed at Anime Expo in July, the report says. The new images put the two central characters back in focus: Mitsuki is the quieter student whose taste and appearance lead Aya to mistake her for a boy working at a CD shop, while Aya is the outgoing rock fan who falls for that mysterious “employee”.
The anime is based on Sumiko Arai’s manga, which began as a short story on Twitter before becoming a weekly web manga and then a Pixiv Comic serialisation. Anime Corner notes that Media Factory had released four collected volumes by February 2026, while the story had already picked up the Next Manga Award in the web manga category.
Why you should care
The hook is not merely a mistaken identity gag stretched over twelve episodes. The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All built its reputation around music, fashion and the awkward emotional lag between what Aya thinks she knows and what Mitsuki is too nervous to explain. That gives CloverWorks something more interesting to animate than a standard crush: a relationship whose visual language is doing half the talking.
The casting is also a useful early signal. Ise and Kito are taking the roles of two characters whose chemistry needs to carry the show while its rock soundtrack and aggressively green aesthetic do the loudest possible entrance. A January premiere gives the adaptation a clean runway, but expectations will be high after the manga’s distinctive look made it such an easy series to recognise online.
Our opinion
These visuals do exactly what they need to do: remind everyone why this adaptation has been on the radar in the first place. The premise is simple, the style is not, and CloverWorks has a promising combination of visual identity, music and genuinely messy romantic tension to work with. Keep this one on the January watchlist — it looks far too distinctive to disappear into the seasonal pile.