The 15th anniversary event of MAPPA delivered one of the most anticipated announcements on the shojo side: the studio confirmed it is producing the anime adaptation of Fall in Love, You False Angels, the manga by Coco Uzuki and winner of the 2025 Kodansha Manga Award. A teaser was published briefly before being set to private, but the details it revealed have already spread.
Production Team
The project has a fully defined crew already in place ahead of its 2027 premiere, confirming MAPPA is well into development โ not just planning. Here is every role confirmed so far:
- Director โ Yasutomo Okamoto
- Character Design โ Mariko Oka
- Series Script Supervisor โ Yohei Yamazaki
- Art Director โ Takumi Hashimoto
- Key Color Artist โ Kana Tanabe
- Animation Producer โ Yuriko Waki
This is the first significant update since the project’s initial reveal. No voice cast has been announced yet โ those details, along with more visual material, are expected as production continues.
About the Manga
Fall in Love, You False Angels by Coco Uzuki has been serialized in Kodansha’s Dessert magazine since . Its seventh collected volume was released on . The series has accumulated serious recognition in a short time.
- 2025 Kodansha Manga Award โ Winner
- Shogakukan Award โ Nominated the same year
- Has remained in the top 20 female reader rankings of Kono Manga ga Sugoi! across multiple editions
The Story
The plot centers on Otogi Katsura, president of the school salon and known for her sweet, angelic image, and Toki Ninomae, the vice president โ equally seemingly perfect in appearance. Both secretly hide very different personalities from the rest of the class. When they mutually discover each other’s facades, they agree to keep that shared secret โ and gradually grow closer in the process. It carries a nakige
-like emotional pull, the kind of slow unraveling that hooks deeply.
Why MAPPA Feels Like a Strong Fit
MAPPA’s recent output shows a studio that balances high visual stakes with genuine emotional depth. Their track record suggests they understand how to handle resonant character arcs without overcooking them โ precision over spectacle. This matters for a shojo adaptation where the storytelling relies less on explosive set pieces and more on subtle expressions, pacing, and tension.
But shojo is a different beast. The manga’s popularity with female readers and its award wins set a high bar. The real question: will the team lean into the manga’s delicate, intimate tone โ or amplify the drama beyond its quiet strength?
With the voice cast still unannounced, those casting choices will be crucial to nailing the characters’ hidden layers. The duality at the heart of this story โ the gap between who people appear to be and who they actually are โ demands performances that feel layered from the start.
MAPPA’s involvement automatically raises the production ceiling, but the real test is whether they protect what makes this manga resonate: its softness, its secrets, and the quiet pull between two people pretending to be something they are not. How this project lands could also signal how much the studio invests in romance-driven narratives going forward.
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