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Now That We Draw Anime Reveals First Full Trailer, Confirms January 2027 Premiere
Now That We Draw just got its most detailed reveal yet. The anime adaptation’s official website posted its first full promotional video on September 24, confirming a January 2027 premiere alongside new staff members and character visuals for leads Yuuki Uehara and Niina Miyamoto.
The rom-com follows two high schoolers hiding the same secret: they’re both aspiring manga artists trying to make it in the industry.
What the New Trailer Revealed
Ayumu Murase and Sayumi Suzushiro are confirmed as the leads, voicing Yuuki Uehara and Niina Miyamoto respectively. Shunsuke Ishikawa is directing the series at Studio Roll2, with Deko Akao supervising series composition and writing the scripts, Hiromi Nakagawa designing the characters, and Yoshiaki Miura composing the score.
The trailer builds on a teaser and key visual the production revealed back in November 2025, when the adaptation was first announced. Thursday’s promotional video adds the staff details and the concrete January 2027 broadcast window that fans had been waiting on since that initial announcement.
The Story Behind the Rom-Com
Yuuki Uehara is a high schooler who dreams of becoming a manga artist and has written what he considers the perfect romantic comedy heroine: bashful, airheaded, and chaste. An editor at his target publisher shoots the story down for feeling unrealistic, sending Yuuki into a spiral of self-doubt.
That’s when Niina Miyamoto, a popular classmate, reads his manuscript and reveals she’s secretly chasing the same dream. Her solution is to fake a relationship with Yuuki so both of them can draw on real romantic experience for their manga, a premise that drives the series’ central will-they-won’t-they tension.
Where the Manga Stands
Now That We Draw is written by Kyu Takahata with art by Yuwji Kaba, and has run in Hakusensha’s Young Animal seinen magazine since February 2023. Seven volumes had been collected as of April 2026, giving the anime a healthy backlog of material to draw from for its first season.
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English, and the series has picked up two nominations for the Next Manga Awards along the way. No streaming platform has been confirmed for international audiences yet.
FAQ
When does Now That We Draw premiere?
The anime is confirmed for a January 2027 premiere, as announced alongside its first full promotional video on September 24, 2026.
Who are the voice actors in Now That We Draw?
Ayumu Murase voices Yuuki Uehara, and Sayumi Suzushiro voices Niina Miyamoto, the series’ two leads.
Who is directing the Now That We Draw anime?
Shunsuke Ishikawa is directing at Studio Roll2, with Deko Akao handling series composition and scripts and Hiromi Nakagawa designing the characters.
What is Now That We Draw about?
The story follows Yuuki Uehara, an aspiring manga artist whose romance story gets rejected for lacking realism, and his classmate Niina Miyamoto, who proposes a fake relationship so they can both gain real romantic experience to improve their manga.
How many volumes of the Now That We Draw manga are there?
The manga had reached seven collected volumes as of April 2026 and continues serialization in Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine.