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Crunchyroll announced on Monday that it will stream a same-day English dub for the television anime adaptation of Syundei’s Go for It, Nakamura! (Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!) boys-love manga on Wednesday.
The English dub stars:
Jad Saxton is directing the dub. Susie Nixon is producing. Heather Walker is adapting the script. Rickey Watkins is the mixer, and Seth Aulds is the engineer.
The anime will debut on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 on Wednesday at 24:30 (effectively Thursday at 12:30 a.m.). The show’s first and second episodes will debut together online only on Hulu on Wednesday at 24:30, and then each new episode will debut a week earlier on Hulu before the television broadcast in Japan. Crunchyroll will stream the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.
Aoi Umeki (Pop Team Epic) is directing the anime and also 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 writing and overseeing the series scripts. Ayana Tsujita (The Demon Prince of Momochi House) is composing the music.
Other staff members include
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).
Syundei first published the original Go for It, Nakamura! manga as a short in 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.
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!
Syundei launched a sequel titled Go for It Again, Nakamura! (Motto Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!) in Akaneshinsha’s boys-love anthology Opera in June 2017. Akaneshinsha published the manga’s volume in August 2021. Seven Seas published the sequel.
Source: Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)
