More yuri goodness is on the way this 2019, as KADOKAWA has just announced that Hitoma Iruma’s yuri light novel series Adachi to Shimamura will be getting a TV anime adaptation! The announcement was made in KADOKAWA’s Dengeki Bunko light novel Twitter account. This will be Iruma’s second work to get an anime adaptation, the first one being Dempa Onna to Seishun Otoko (Ground Control to Psychedelic Girl) which received a 12-episode anime adaptation produced in 2011 by Shaft.
Check out below the special illustration that came with KADOKAWA’s official announcement.
There are little to no details on the series’ anime adaptation yet, but KADOKAWA has promised that more details will come soon and will be released via the Dengeki Bunko magazine and its official Twitter account.
Adachi to Shimamura was launched in Dengeki Bunko magazine in 2013, with illustrations done by Non. The light novel series has released seven volumes so far, with the eighth to be released this Friday. In 2016, the light novel series was adapted into a three-volume manga series by Mani which was released on Square Enix’s Gangan Online website until 2017. Last March, author Iruma announced that a second manga adaptation of her work is on the way, with illustrations now to be done by Moke Yuzuhara. The new manga adaptation will be launched on May 25 in KADOKAWA’s Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh.
Besides Adachi to Shimamura, Iruma has also written other yuri works such as Yagate Kimi ni Naru – Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite (Bloom Into You – On Sayaka Saeki), a light novel spinoff of Nio Nakatani’s yuri manga Yagate Kimi ni Naru.
The story follows high schoolers Sakura Adachi and Hougetsu Shimamura, whose friendship started when they first met each other on the second floor of their school gymnasium. The novel shows the two girls’ spending their days together doing activities such as talking to each other about their favorite TV shows and playing table tennis together. However, their ordinary days together undergo a subtle change when Adachi starts having romantic feelings for Shimamura.
Source: Anime News Network