Now That We Draw Reveals Key Visual

The Now That We Draw anime adaptation by Roll2 revealed the first key visual today at AnimeJapan 2026. As previously announced, Ayumu Murase voices Yuki Uehara, and Sayumi Suzushiro voices Niina Miyamoto. ROLL2 is animating the adaptation.

The anime will adapt the Now That We Draw (Kakunaru Ue wa) manga written by Kyu Takahata and illustrated by Yuki Uehara. The manga has been serialized in Hakusensha's Young Animal. Seven Seas licensed it in English and describes the plot as:

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?

Source: Comic Natalie
© Kyu Takahata, Yuji Uehara /Hakusensha/"Now That We Draw" Production Committee