#Horimiya -piece- Releases First PV Trailer

The production team for the Horimiya -piece- TV anime has released the first “concept trailer” for the series. The new Horimiya anime will depict unadapted stories from the first season and is scheduled to premiere in July 2023. 

The returning production staff from the 2021 Horimiya anime includes Masashi Ishihama (Persona 5: The Animation, From the New World) as director, Takao Yoshioka (Your Lie in April, WORKING!!) as series screenwriter and script writer, Haruko Iizuka (Ensemble Stars!, Inu × Boku SS) as character designer, and Masaru Yokoyama (Your Lie in April, Chihayafuru) as music composer. CloverWorks is handling the animation production. 

Haruka Tomatsu and Kouki Uchiyama are voicing their respective characters Kyokou Hori and Izumi Miyamura. Other returning voice cast members include Seiichirou Yamashita, Yurie Kozakai, Nobuhiko Okamoto, M.A.O., Reina Kondou, and Daiki Yamashita, among others. 

The first Horimiya season ran for 13 episodes from January 10, 2021 to April 4, 2021, with Crunchyroll streaming the anime outside of Japan. A separate OVA series titled Hori-san to Miyamura-kun aired in 2012 for six episodes. 

The anime is based on the manga series written by HERO and illustrated by Daisuke Hagiwara. It was originally launched as a webcomic on the Gangan Comics imprint from February 2007 to December 22, 2011. It was serialized in Square Enix’s Monthly G Fantasy magazine from October 8, 2011 to March 18, 2021. Sixteen tankoubon volumes were released in total. Horimiya was originally created as a web comic.

Yen Press releases the manga in English and describes the story as:

At school, Kyouko Hori is known for being smart, attractive, and popular. On the other hand, her classmate, the boring, gloomy Izumi Miyamura tends to get painted as a “loser fanboy.” But when a liberally pierced and tattooed (not to mention downright gorgeous) Miyamura appears unexpectedly on the doorstep of secretly plain-Jane homebody Hori, these two similarly dissimilar teenagers discover that there are multiple sides to every story…and person!

Source: Horimiya Official Anime Twitter