The Kakunaru Ue wa (Now That We Draw/ 描くなるうえは) manga by Takahata Kyuu and Kaba Yuuji has been green-lit for a TV anime. A promotional video and teaser visual for the anime have been revealed, along with an illustration by Kaba.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfV4hiemNHQ]
Ishikawa Shunsuke is directing the anime at ROLL2 studios, and the anime will star Murase Ayumu as Uehara Yuuki and Suzushiro Sayumi as Niina Miyamoto.
Takahata and Kaba started the manga in February 2023 in Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine, and Hakusensha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in August 2023. The manga’s fifth volume was released in April 2025, and the sixth volume is scheduled for release on November 28th, 2025.
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English under the name Now That We Draw, and it will release the manga’s fourth volume on February 24th, 2026 and the fifth volume on July 7th, 2026. Seven Seas describes the manga story below:
“Dweeby high schooler Uehara Yuuki has created the perfect romantic comedy heroine—she’s bashful, airheaded, and completely chaste. When an editor at Uehara’s dream publisher coldly dismisses his manga story as trite and lacking realism, it sends Uehara into a spiral of despair that pushes him into the path of his bubbly, gorgeous classmate, Miyamoto Niina—an aspiring manga artist herself!
Having gotten the similar feedback on her own manga, Miyamoto proposes she and Uehara engage in a fake relationship, since neither of them has any romantic experience. But Miyamoto is far from the perfect heroine Uehara’s concocted, and he certainly isn’t the cocky hero from her story either. Can their wacky relationship turn their manga dreams into reality, or will it lead to even more comic disasters?”
