CyberAgent, Inc. has unveiled the teaser trailer, main cast, and part of the staff for the anime Just Like Mona Lisa (Original Title: Seibetsu “Mona Lisa” no Kimi e). Animation production will be handled by SHAFT, with Kana Shundo (APOCALYPSE HOTEL, Saga of Tanya the Evil as Assistant Director) as Director. Nobuhiro Sugiyama (Nisekoi, March Comes In like a Lion) will serve as Character Design/Chief Animation Director, and Yuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Medalist) will be in charge of Music. Furthermore, Chika Anzai has been cast as the main character, Arima Hinase.

Just Like Mona Lisa is a work created by Tsumuji Yoshimura and was serialized on “Gangan ONLINE,” published by Square Enix. The series has surpassed a cumulative 1 million copies in circulation. Set in a world where everyone is born genderless, people’s bodies shift toward their desired gender when they reach around twelve years old.

The story has garnered significant attention as a coming-of-age ensemble drama portraying the main character, Hinase—who remains the only “genderless” person even at 18—navigating questions of their own identity and romance.

The teaser trailer offering a glimpse of the anime’s beautiful visual world and the highly anticipated main cast has now been revealed for the first time.

The staff and cast for Just Like Mona Lisa was revealed as follows:

CAST

• Arima Hinase（CV：Anzai Chika）

STAFF

• Original Story: Tsumuji Yoshimura’s “Just Like Mona Lisa” (Published by Square Enix “Gangan Comics ONLINE“)
• Director: Kana Shundo
• Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Nobuhiro Sugiyama
• Music: Yuki Hayashi
• Animation Production: SHAFT Inc.
• Production Committee Lead: CyberAgent

The story of Just Like Mona Lisa is described as follows:

In a world where everyone is born genderless.

Their bodies shift toward their desired gender when they reach around twelve years old.

Yet Hinase alone had not changed at all and had now reached the age of eighteen.

Arima Hinase, a third-year high school student, carries the quiet unease of being the only one around them genderless, yet simply spends unchanged days with childhood friends Ritsu Kaga and Shiori Takayama, and that alone had been enough.

Then one day, when Ritsu and Shiori confess their feelings towards Hinease, their everyday life begins to change.

“Something is about to change. Their eighteenth spring has arrived.”

Source: Press Release

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