This year’s January issue of Kodansha’s Dessert magazine announced on Friday that Takashi Naoya (Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru) will direct the television anime based on Mao Nanami’s Real Girl (3D Kanojo) manga.
The magazine also revealed rough character designs for Tsuttsun and Iroha. the anime will premiere in 2018.
Warner Bros. Japan announced in July that it will also release a live-action film adaptation of the manga in 2018.
The romantic comedy manga ran in Kodansha’s Dessert magazine from July 2011 to May 2016, and Kodansha published the series in 12 compiled volumes.