The official website for the upcoming television anime adaptation of Kyū Takahata and Yūji Kaba's romantic comedy manga Now That We Draw (Kakunaru Ue wa) has confirmed an official January 2027 broadcast premiere. Alongside the release window update, production teams dropped a fresh wave of details concerning the series' opening musical theme and principal creative roster.
Vocalist lia's music project shallm has been officially tapped to perform the series' opening theme song, titled "Kimiiro Hikari" (The Light of Your Color). The track was composed specifically for the adaptation to match the youthful energy of the series' creative ambitions.
Production Pedigree & Cast
The adaptation is being helmed by director Shunsuke Ishikawa at animation studio ROLL2. Joining him at the creative helm is veteran script supervisor and series writer Deko Akao, known for her work on Arakawa Under the Bridge and Komi Can't Communicate. Character designs are being handled by Hiromi Nakagawa, with production management overseen by Infinite.
The principal voice cast features Ayumu Murase as the inexperienced, aspiring manga author Yūki Uehara, alongside Sayumi Suzushiro as his bubbly co-conspirator and fake-dating partner, Niina Miyamoto.
Dweeby high schooler Yūki Uehara has created the perfect romantic comedy heroine—she's bashful, airheaded, and completely chaste. When an editor at Uehara's dream publisher coldly dismisses his manga story as trite and lacking realism, it sends Uehara into a spiral of despair that pushes him into the path of his bubbly, gorgeous classmate, Niina Miyamoto—an aspiring manga artist herself!
Seven Seas Entertainment
Manga Roots
Kyū Takahata and Yūji Kaba originally launched the series in Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine in 2023. North American publisher Seven Seas Entertainment licenses the English-language version of the manga, continuing to introduce readers to the awkward theatricalities of high school creators trying to figure out romance through trial and error.
