The staff for the television anime of Syundei’s Go for It, Nakamura! (Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!) boys-love manga confirmed on Monday that it cast Kenshō Ono and Kenta Miyake as Kō Matsumura (left in image below), Hirose’s classmate during junior high school, and Nobu Todoroki (right), Hirose’s old friend. The characters appeared in the anime’s eighth episode last week.
/／#ガンバレ中村くん
キャスト情報解禁🐙
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第8話で初登場する
広瀬の中学時代の同級生
松村高青役は #小野賢章 さん
広瀬の旧友
轟 矗役は #三宅健太 さん
に決定しました❣
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— TVアニメーション『ガンバレ！中村くん！！』公式 (@nkmr_kun_tv) May 18, 2026 Image courtesy of Crunchyroll
©Nakamura-kun!! Animation Project
Seven Seas licensed the romantic comedy manga, and it describes the story:
Nakamura is a shy boy who falls in love at first sight with one of his classmates–his dreamy high school classmate, Hirose. But there’s a problem: they haven’t met yet. And Nakamura is a total klutz who might bungle things before they even begin!
The anime stars:
Aoi Umeki (Pop Team Epic) is directing the anime and also co-writing the scripts and designing the characters. Drive is animating the series. Naoki Yoshibe (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure animation director) is the assistant director, and Yasuko Aoki (Phantom of the Idol, Tying the Knot With an Amagami Sister) of Studio Monado is both co-writing and overseeing the series scripts. Ayana Tsujita (The Demon Prince of Momochi House) is composing the music.
Yasuyuki Okamura and Kento Nakajima perform the opening theme song “Shunpatsuteki ni Koi Shiyо̄” (Let’s Fall in Love Instantly). A previous promo video for the show had previewed Senri Oe’s song “Glory Days” and Princess Princess’ song “Sekai de Ichiban Atsui Natsu” (The World’s Hottest Summer).
The anime premiered on the Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 channels on April 1 at 24:30 (effectively April 2 at 12:30 a.m.). The show’s first and second episodes premiered together online exclusively on Hulu on April 1 at 24:30, and then each new episode premieres a week earlier on Hulu before the television broadcast in Japan. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS, and is also streaming an English dub.
Syundei first published the original Go for It, Nakamura! manga as a short in Akaneshinsha’s boys-love anthology Opera in December 2014, but began publishing new chapters in the magazine in June 2015. Akaneshinsha published one compiled book volume for the manga in May 2017.
Syundei launched a sequel titled Go for It Again, Nakamura! (Motto Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!) in Opera in June 2017. Akaneshinsha published the manga’s volume in August 2021. Seven Seas published the sequel.
Syundei recently deleted their X (formerly Twitter) account after describing dealing with alleged online harassment, regarding their illustrations and character depictions in the Go For It, Nakamura-kun! manga.
Sources: Go for It, Nakamura! anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
