BODY: A gamer-obsessed youkai girl and a boy who can see what nobody else can are getting their shot at television. During the sixth Jump Press livestream on Monday, Shueisha announced a TV anime adaptation of Kouta Kawae's Nue no Onmyouji (Nue's Exorcist), rolling out a teaser visual, an announcement trailer, and the first slate of cast and staff. The series premieres on TV Asahi in Summer 2027.
Saori Oonishi (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) voices the title character Nue, the video-game-loving genyou who upends the life of protagonist Gakurou Yajima β played by Kaito Miura (Tougen Anki). Sayumi Suzushiro (CafΓ© Terrace and Its Goddesses) rounds out the announced trio as Kazusa Suou.
Studio Hibari is handling animation, with Hiroyuki Hashimoto directing and Hiroshi Seko on series composition β a notable get, given Seko's rΓ©sumΓ© spans Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Chainsaw Man. Shunpei Mochizuki is adapting the character designs, Takayuki Yamaguchi serves as sound director, and MONACA, the composer collective behind the NieR and Idolmaster soundtracks, is scoring.
Kawae's manga has run in Weekly Shonen Jump since May 2023 and follows Gakurou, who has perceived invisible youkai called genyou since childhood. When he enters high school, he stumbles into a hidden room and meets Nue, setting him on the path to becoming a modern-day onmyouji. Shueisha has published 16 volumes, with the 17th due November 4, and the series has 1.6 million copies in circulation.
The insider take
That 1.6 million figure is the number to watch. It is respectable for a Jump series three years in, but it is not Kaiju No. 8 money β which makes the Summer 2027 slot and the TV Asahi berth read less like a victory lap and more like a deliberate runway. Shueisha has learned from Sakamoto Days and Akane-banashi that a long pre-broadcast window lets a mid-tier title build shelf presence before episode one airs. Expect the Jump booth at next summer's AnimeJapan in Odaiba to lean hard on Nue, and expect her controller-clutching silhouette on Shibuya station wraps well before the premiere. Studio Hibari, meanwhile, is a quietly dependable Suginami shop rather than a hype factory, which suits a series whose charm is atmosphere over spectacle.
Originally reported by News - MyAnimeList (English).