On December 27, the television anime adaptation of Kokone Nata’s Play It Cool, Guys manga released a full promotional video and key visual for the second of its two cours. The video features a new character and previews the opening theme song.
The anime is set to premiere on January 2, 2023. The previous cour aired on TV Tokyo on October 10. Additionally, Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs.
The new character introduced is Shirakawa, Motoharu’s editor, who will be voiced by the actor Ayako Kawasumi.
The new opening theme song, “Warau na!” is performed by the songwriter and producer Syudou. The ending theme song “Taisetsu” is performed by the voice actors of four of the main protagonists, Chiaki Kobayashi, Kouki Uchiyama, Yuichiro Umehara, and Shōya Chiba.
Chiaki Kon is directing the anime at Studio Pierrot. Makato Ueza oversees the series scripts, and Airi Taguchi is the character designer and chief animation director. The music for the series is being composed by Masato Nakayama.
The anime’s plot revolves around a group of guys who believe they are extremely cool and have unapproachable swag. In reality, they are a bunch of dorks who are constantly trying to seem cooler than they really are.
The anime follows these guys in their day-to-day life and shows them get up to various different kinds of adventures trying to look cool, but ending up seeming awkward and goofy.
The manga was first launched in June 2019 on the Gangan pixiv website and is currently ongoing. The manga ranked sixteenth in the 2020 edition of Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi!(This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook for its female readers’ list.
About Play It Cool, Guys
Play It Cool, Guys is a web manga series by Kotone Nata. Its serialization started in 2019, and the series will receive an anime in 2022.
Play It Cool, Guys focuses on four handsome but equally clumsy men who provide laughter through their behaviors. They try their hardest to look cool, but it’s hard to do that when they keep repeating a variety of clumsy errors every day.
Sources: Play It Cool, Guys Promotional Video, Comic Natalie
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