The A Sign of Affection anime adaptation will premiere in Japan on January 6. Also revealed were a key visual, extra cast members, and theme song details.
Nao Touyama and Tasuku Hatanaka are the newly announced voice actors, with their respective characters being Ema Nakasono and Shin Iryuu, the high school classmates of male protagonist Itsuomi. For the theme songs, Novelbright and ChoQMay are the artists for the opening and ending, respectively. The opening song is titled “Yuki no Oto” while the ending is “snowspring.”
A Sign of Affection is based on the manga by Suu Morishita , which started serialization in Kodansha’s Dessert in 2019 and has nine tankoubon volumes as of July 2023. It was one of the finalists in the 47th Kodansha Manga Awards in the Shojo category.
INKR describes the plot as:
Yuki is a typical college student, whose world revolves around her friends, social media, and the latest sales. But when a chance encounter on a train leads to her meeting friend-of-a-friend and fellow student Itsuomi-san, her world starts to widen. But even though Itsuomi-kun can speak three languages, sign language isn’t one of them. Can the two learn to communicate the budding feelings between them?
Staff
• Director and storyboard artist: Yuuta Murano (Kakushigoto director)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Youko Yonaiyama (Ya Boy Kongming!)
• Character designer: Kasumi Sakai (Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie Over The Rainbow co-live performance costume designer et al.)
• Color designer: Naomi Nakano (Chainsaw Man)
• Art director: Kouhei Honda (Kakushigoto)
• Composting director: Teppei Satou (Kakushigoto)
• Layout designer: Masayuki Sekine (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou)
• Sign language animator: Yoshiaki Yanagida (Genshiken character designer)
• Sign language animator: Masaya Fujimori (Revenger director)
• Sign language animator: Yuuki Miyamoto (Revenger co-action animation director)
• Music composer: Yukari Hashimoto (Komi Can’t Communicate)
• Animation production: Ajiado
Cast
• Sumire Morohoshi as Yuki Itose
• Yuu Miyazaki as Itsuomi Nagi
• Takeo Ootsuka as Oshi Ashioki
• Ryouta Oosaka as Kyouya Nagi
• Kaede Hondo as Rin Fujishiro
Source: @yubisaki_pr
