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Urushiha Sarara wa Koi Nado Shinai Manga Gets Animated Promotional Video

Kadokawa began streaming an anime commercial for Puyo's Urushiha Sarara wa Koi Nado Shinai (Sarara Urushiha Isn't Into Romance) manga on Thursday. The video celebrates the release of the manga's second compiled book volume, which also shipped on Thursday. Ayaka Mitsuba narrates the video.

The staff for the commercial includes:

• Director, Line Director, Storyboards: Nanako Fujisawa
• Key Animator: Etsushi Mori
• Animation Director, Assistant Line Director: Kazuo Takigawa
• Color Setting, Finishing Check: Emiko Okada
• Art: Hitomi Satō, Yukina Hirai
• Director of Photography: Ryō Itō
• Editing: Ichiro Chaen
• Music: Johannes Nilsson (Team-MAX)
• Sound Producer: Takuma Takai
• Production Assistant: Maya Okada, Kiren Atsuhito
• Production: NAZ
• In-Between Production, Finishing: Studio Lings

The manga centers on the titular Sarara Urushiha, who is a beautiful, popular, smart, athletic girl who constantly receives romantic confessions. As a result, all romance has lost its luster for her. One day, annoyed at the constant attention she gets, she relieves her stress violently in an empty classroom, but her classmate witnesses her outburst.

Puyo launched the manga in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine in January 2018.

Puyo worked on both the The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan four-panel gag manga based on Nagaru Tanigawa and Noizi Ito's The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya light novel series, as well as the The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan spinoff manga. The former launched in Monthly Shōnen Ace in July 2007 and ended last December. The latter launched in Young Ace in 2009, and ended in August 2016. Yen Press publishes both manga in English.

Both manga inspired anime adaptations. The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan anime shorts debuted in 2009, while the The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan television anime premiered in 2015.

The 12th and final volume of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan also shipped on Thursday, and the volume features a short story by Tanigawa, as well as color illustrations by Ito and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya manga artist Gaku Tsugano.

Sources: Kadokawa's YouTube channel, Comic Natalie