Staff for the Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!! (Go for It, Nakamura!/ ガンバレ！中村くん!! ) TV anime have released the third promotional video and confirmed that the anime will premiere on April 1st, 2026. Crunchyroll will stream the anime in the West.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QivWH79PkcE]
The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV and BS11 channels at 24:30 (effectively April 2nd at 12:30 a.m.). The first two episodes will be available to view online on the Hulu service in Japan on April 2nd at 12:30 a.m. Each new episode will debut a week earlier on Hulu Japan before the TV broadcast.
Umeki Aoi is directing the anime at Drive studios, and the anime will star:
- Kobayashi Chiaki as Okuto Nakamura
- Sakakuhara Yuki as Aiki Hirose
- Eguchi Takuya as Sou Otogiri
- Ai Fairouz as Hifumi Kawamura
- Nozuyama Yukihiro as Toka Takeuchi
- Tamaru Atsushi as Ryou Mukai
- Koichi Makoto as Yuka Hamaoka
- Maihara Yume as Masako Okuda
- Sasa Tsubasa as Tsukasa Omori
The anime is an adaptation of Syundei’s Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!! boys love manga. Syundei (Gesshoku Kitan, Zatsuon) started the original manga as a short in December 2014 and began regular serialisation in June 2015 in Akene Shinsha’s Opera magazine. Akene Shinsha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in May 2017.
Syundei started a sequel manga in June 2017 titled Motto Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!! (Go for It Again, Nakamura!). The manga was serialised in Opera magazine, and Akene Shinsha published the manga as a volume in August 2021.
Seven Seas Entertainment has released both the original manga volume, Go for It, Nakamura!, and the manga sequel, Go for It Again, Nakamura!, in English. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the original manga below:
“Nakamura has fallen in love-at-first-sight with one of his classmates, Hirose–but there’s a problem: they haven’t actually met yet…and Nakamura is a total klutz who might bungle things before they even begin!”
