The TV anime "Kore Kaite Shine), based on the manga by Minoru Toyoda, which has been making headlines for winning the Manga Taisho 2023 and the 70th Shogakukan Manga Award, will begin airing on Nippon Television's "FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT" block every Friday at 11:30 PM on 30 stations nationwide starting July 3rd. It was also announced that singer-songwriter Tatsuya Kitani Kitani will be performing the opening theme song. The song is titled "Isho" (Last Will and Testament) and was written specifically for this series. The anime's promotional video has been released on YouTube, and the song has been unveiled.
Kitani commented, "When a person dies, the physical body returns to nothing, but what is inside the mind and heart remains. There is the existence of myself, and there is the world seen from there, and I write it down and leave it behind because I want someone to understand it. This written record is called a will. By the way, creative activity is a scream of 'I am here (I was here).' It is an activity for people who want to decorate a corner of the world with themselves etched into their works. Of course, I want people a thousand years from now to know me, and perhaps even that is possible, but the essence of it is to slam down everything about how I am in this very moment onto the paper in front of me. In other words, creative activity is a will that is constantly updated by being overwritten as long as you are alive! That's what this song is about."
This promotional video begins with the protagonist, Yasumi, encountering the manga "Robota and Pokota" by ☆No, which he considers his bible. The video then depicts the joys and struggles that each of the unique characters experiences as they form a manga research club and embark on the path of creation.
"Kore Kaite Shine" is a manga x high school girl coming-of-age story that has been serialized in "Gessan" (Shogakukan) since 2021. It depicts a high school girl who is fascinated by manga and forms a manga research club with her friends, struggling to find what she wants to draw. The protagonist, Ai Yasumi, is a first-year high school student living on Izu-Ojima, an island off the coast of Tokyo, who loves to read manga, and after a certain incident, she begins to think about drawing manga herself.
The anime will be directed by Teasing Master Takagi-san The Dangers in My Heart, " and produced by Shin-Ei Animation. Saori Hayami Akira Sekine will play the role of Ai Yasumi, and other cast members include Saori Hayami as Rei Teshima, Saya Hitomi as Kokoro Fujimori, Kanon Fujimura as Yuki Akabuku, Inori Minase as Mitsuru Ishiryu, and Noriko Hidaka as Pokota.
