'Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai' Unveils Supporting Cast, Staff, Second Promo

by Syureria
Nov 20, 2025 1:15 AM | 6 Comments

The official website of the Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai (Kaya-chan Isn't Scary) television anime revealed four additional cast, staff, theme song, and a second promotional video on Thursday. The anime series adapting Tarou Yuri's school supernatural manga will premiere on January 11, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. on TV Tokyo's six affiliate networks, AT-X, and WOWOW.

Cast
Shizuo Satou (Kaya Papa): Toshiyuki Morikawa (Buddy Daddies)
Mirai Satou (Kaya Mama): Mamiko Noto (Shokugeki no Souma)
Nana Ebisumori (Nana): Haruka Tomatsu (Isekai Ojisan)
Mutsu Ebisumori (Mutsu): Yoshiko Sakakibara (Psycho-Pass)

Staff
Art Director, Art Design: Ayumi Satou (Zetsuen no Tempest)
Color Design: Ritsuko Utagawa (Mieruko-chan)
Director of Photography: Natsuki Yoshizawa (Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai photography)
Editing: Gou Sadamatsu (Clevatess)
Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi (Boushoku no Berserk)
Music Production: Pony Canyon

Virtual singer Isekaijoucho (Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan: Super Extra) is performing the opening theme "Maboroshi no Yukue." SAK & TAO, also virtual singers, are performing the ending theme "Playmour feat. Kaya-chan." Both songs are previewed in the promotional video below.

Hiroshi Ikehata (Dark Gathering) is directing the anime at East Fish Studio. Shigeru Murakoshi (Zombieland Saga) is handling the series composition.

Tarou Yamada (Kyochuu Rettou CG director) and Hiroyuki Moriguchi (Around 40 Otoko no Isekai Tsuuhan) are designing the characters. Kohta Yamamoto (Mato Seihei no Slave) and Shun Narita (Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha) are composing the music.

Yuri began serializing the manga on the Kurage Bunch website in April 2022. Shinchosha published the seventh volume on June 9, with the eighth volume scheduled to be released on January 8, 2026.

Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga in English in November 2024 and shipped the third volume on October 28. The fourth volume is planned for a January 6, 2026 release.

PV 2

Source: Press Release

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6 Comments Recent Comments

@LyLord Yeah, I'm definitely noticing that, as long as their corner cutting allows them to do better where it really counts I don't mind so much. That catch being exactly that, they have to do a good job where it counts or it's just corner cutting.

Nov 29, 2025 5:46 PM by MewsicMagic

@iThink Not only that, but so far a majority of the staff for this also worked on Dark Gathering.

Nov 29, 2025 5:45 PM by MewsicMagic

Isn't this, like, Dark Gathering but from the side?

Nov 20, 2025 8:54 PM by iThink

Trippy visuals, kind of reminds me a little bit of gorillas in a way, but more otaku style.

Nov 20, 2025 5:38 PM by Retro8bit

I can already see the cutting corners East Fish did, but the prioritized the ghosts. The action seems to just be a shaking png sadly, but over all this is so much beyond how Frozen Tiles looked like.
I believe in you, East Fish.

Nov 20, 2025 10:29 AM by LyLord

I read the manga for this the ghosts are creepy as hell and the series is fun

Nov 20, 2025 1:42 AM by yamiyugi101