Summary
- The new rom-com anime “Medaka Kuroiwa” premieres on January 6, 2025, targeting fans of Rent-A-Girlfriend & Quintessential Quintuplets.
- The series follows the popular Mona who tries to seduce the monk-in-training Medaka, which leads to unexpected results and romance.
- Directed by Yoshiaki Okumura, starring Yu Serizawa and Ryota Iwasaki, with Hololive themes. Stream on Crunchyroll.
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Romantic comedy fans will have a new anime to watch in the upcoming anime season. Medaka Kuroiwa is insensitive to my charms will start on January 6, 2025 and could be a good option for those who like series like Renting a Girlfriend The Quintessential Quintuplets mixed with a pinch of Kaguya-sama. However, in a season with hits like Solo levelingthis might go unnoticed by many.
This series had a fair reception in Japan and could become one of the audience's favorite romantic comedies. Fans of this kind of story should also give it a try I'm getting married to a girl I hate in my class and the second season of The 100 girlfriends who really, really, really, really, really love you. Despite being scheduled for January, Japanese fans have already had a chance to watch the first episode in an advance screening held at United Cinemas Toyosu in Tokyo on December 7, according to ANN.
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The guy who doesn't care about the queen bee
Mona Kawai is the most popular girl in high school and loves the attention she can get. Everyone falls in love with her charms. Or almost everyone… because there's one boy who doesn't seem to care about her. But she is determined to change that and goes to great lengths to try and seduce him.
It will be a tough fight because the boy, Medaka Kuroiwa, is actually training to become a monk.. So, indeed, he does his best not to be tempted by worldly pleasures. And worst of all, she tries so hard to seduce him that she ends up falling in love with him!
Meet the main characters
Medaka Kuroiwa, a second-year high school boy, is the protagonist of this series. He prepares to become a monk at his family's temple and has been openly instructed not to fall in love with anyone, which becomes a problem when Mona and other girls start following him.
Mona Kawai can also be considered a protagonist because the story is actually told from her perspective. She's also in her second year of high school and moved from Osaka to Tokyo (which might add to her charm, she mostly uses Kansai dialect when she's angry). She is vain and being the queen bee of the school makes her very happy. This is one of the reasons why she is frustrated that Medaka doesn't pay her any attention.
Besides Mona, other girls also try to get closer to Medaka, such as Tsubomi and Tomo. For those who would like to have a better idea of what to expect, Kodansha USA is publishing the original manga in English. The story, written by Ran Kuze, has been serialized since 2021, with 17 volumes so far.
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Studio SynergySP (Girlfriend, lover) is in charge of animation, with Yoshiaki Okumura (The fruit of evolution, Ikuze! Gen-san) as director. Kuzuyuki Fudeyasu (Dropkick My Devil!) is the lead writer and Mayumi Watanabe (Elf ban Kakyusei, Frost) handles character design. Akiyuki Tateyama is composing the film and he has worked previously The elusive samurai.
Cast and musical themes
The main characteristics of the distribution Yu Serizawa (Mini Yaemori in Rent-oo my friend) like Mona and Ryota Iwasaki (Kiminobu Kogure in First Slam Dunk) as Medaka. Hololive VTuber unit AyaFubuMi perform the opening song, “Ame Tokimeki Koi Moyō”, and Kaori Maeda (2.5 Dimensional seduction theme songs as Ririsa Amano) performs the ending theme, “Kyunapi”.
Medaka Kuroiwa is insensitive to my charms
will be streaming on Crunchyroll starting January 6th.
