Miki Yoshikawa's A Couple of Cuckoos Manga Gets TV Anime in 2022

09 Apr 2021

Anime by studios Shin-Ei Animation, Synergy SP will star Kaito Ishikawa, Akari Kitō

An official website opened on Tuesday to announce that Miki Yoshikawa's A Couple of Cuckoos manga is getting a television anime series that will premiere in 2022. The anime will star Kaito Ishikawa as Nagi Umino and Akari Kitō as Erika Amano. Hiroaki Akagi (Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san, Those Snow White Notes) is the chief director of the anime and Yoshiyuki Shirahata (episode director for Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Great Pretender) is directing the anime at Shin-Ei Animation and Synergy SP. Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War both seasons, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun) is overseeing the series scripts, and Aya Takano (Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san, Polar Bear's Café) is designing the characters. Yoshikawa (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Yankee-kun to Megane-chan) launched the A Couple of Cuckoos (Kakkō no Iinazuke) manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in January 2020. Kodansha published the manga's fifth compiled book volume on January 15. The manga is getting a novel that will launch on April 14. Kodansha Comics publishes the manga in English, and it describes the manga: 16-year-old super-studier Nagi Umino, second-year student at the Megurogawa Academy high school, was switched at birth. On his way to a dinner to meet his birth parents, he accidentally meets the brash, outspoken, Erika Amano, who is determined to make Nagi her fake boyfriend as she never wants to actually marry. But once Nagi makes it to dinner, he finds his parents have decided to resolve the hospital switch by conveniently having him marry the daughter his birth parents raised...who turns out to be none other than Erika herself! Shueisha's Young Jump magazine revealed in February that Yoshikawa's manga will have a collaboration with Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari's Oshi no Ko manga. Sources: A Couple of Cuckoos anime's website, Comic Natalie