The official website for Anne Shirley, the latest anime adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables novel series, has officially revealed the anime's teaser trailer, key visual, additional staff members, and April 5, 2025 premiere. The Answer Studio is producing the animation, with the anime confirmed to run for a total of 24 episodes. Watch the new teaser trailer for Anne Shirley below:
The additional staff for Anne Shirley includes:
Yūji Watanabe (Lupin the Third: Part 5 episodes 2 and 4) and Naoko Saitō (Lupin the Third: Part 5 episode 2) as the animation directors
Tadashi Kudo (The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus film) as art director
Shiho Kuriki (City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust, Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files films) as the color key artist
Shinji Saitō (City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust film) as the compositing director of photography
Kisuke Koizumi (Chainsaw Man, Kingdom third and fourth seasons) as sound director
Michiru Ōshima (Fullmetal Alchemist, The Tatami Galaxy) as the music composer
Here's the new key visual for Anne Shirley anime, featuring Anne, Diana and Gilbert:
Anne Shirley will begin broadcasting on NHK Educational at 6:25 p.m. JST (5:25 a.m. EDT). The main cast includes:
Honoka Inoue as Anne Shirley
Aya Nakamura as Marilla Cuthbert
Yasunori Matsumoto as Matthew Cuthbert
Naoya Miyase as Gilbert Blythe
Yume Miyamoto as Diana Barry
What is Anne of Green Gables about?
The upcoming anime is based on the first novel set in the late 19th century in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward, Canada, where Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, is sent by mistake to middled-aged siblings, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. The siblings originally planned to adopt a boy to help them do farm work. The novel recounts Anne's adventures in school and within the town.
The upcoming anime adaptation will depict Anne's story from a girl to a woman, how she makes her way through life with the Cuthbert siblings, her romance with Gilbert, and her friendship with Diana. Some of these story elements happen in Montgomery's sequel novels.
In 1952, Japanese novelist and translator Hanako Muraoka translated the Anne of Green Gables novel to Japanese with the title Akage no Anne. Since its publication in 1908, the novel has been translated into at least 36 languages and has sold more than 50 million copies.
The anime has a manga adaptation by Akane Hoshikubo, and it launched in Kadokawa's B's-LOG COMIC magazine on January 5.
