Now That We Draw sets a January 2027 premiere
The first full promo video for the Now That We Draw anime has landed, confirming a January 2027 broadcast and naming the rest of the production team behind it.
The anime adaptation of Now That We Draw has a first full promo video and, with it, a date. The official site published the video and a set of character visuals on 24 September, confirming that the series will broadcast in January 2027. The teaser that went up last year promised the adaptation; this one starts answering the questions people actually ask about an anime announcement, which are who is making it and what it looks like in motion.
Who is making it
The production company is Infinite and the animation studio is ROLL2, with Shunsuke Ishikawa directing. Deko Akao is handling series composition and scripts, and Hiromi Nakagawa is designing the characters. The official site lists the wider team as Momoka Izumi on sub-character design, Yurie Matsuura on colour, Arei Saiga on art direction, Hayato Kifune on photography, Masashi Watanabe on 3DCG, Mai Hasegawa on editing, Fumiyuki Go as sound director, Ryuta Nakahara on sound effects and Yoshiaki Miura on music. Ayumu Murase voices Yuki Uehara and Sayumi Suzushiro voices Niina Miyamoto, and both are credited on the official site with cast comments.
The manga underneath it
The source material is Kyu Takahata and Yuji Kaba's manga, serialised in Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine. It follows Uehara, a high-schooler who wants to be a manga artist and gets his romance manuscript rejected as unrealistic, and Miyamoto, the classmate he assumes is simply a glamorous gyaru, who turns out to want the same career. Their solution is a pretend relationship staged as research, which is the sort of premise that lives or dies on how well the two leads carry it. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English, so a western reader who wants to get ahead of the adaptation has a legitimate route to do it.
Our opinion
Announcement trailers are cheap and full promo videos are not, so the interesting information here is credit-shaped rather than visual. Putting Ishikawa, whose feature work was on the BLUE LOCK movie, together with a script supervisor as experienced as Akao is a sign that the production is being staffed as a comedy with timing rather than as a slideshow of pretty key art. The premise is narrow: a fake relationship between two people who both want the same job is a two-hander, and if the animation cannot hold faces in close-up the whole thing falls over. A January 2027 slot gives it roughly a season of runway, and on the evidence of this video that looks like enough. Worth watching, and worth waiting for the second one before deciding anything.