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New Summer 2022 Anime With Notable Original Creators

We have officially entered July of 2022 and it means new encounters of anime nature are waiting for you this summer. We took a look at the new titles of the season and found a few that were created by some very famous and familiar names. Few of them are based on manga or light novels, but some are also original works created by people who have worked on famous titles in the past.

When Will Ayumu Make His Move?

First off, Teasing Master Takagi-san and In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki’s author, Soichiro Yamamoto’s another school life romantic comedy, When Will Ayumu Make His Move? is coming to make your summer hotter.

The plot follows Ayumu Tanaka who falls in love with a Senpai, Urushi Yaotomoe of Shogi Club. The currently ongoing romantic comedy manga series begun in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine in March 2019. Volume 12 will be released in July 2022.

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© Soichiro Yamamoto・Kodansha / When Will Ayumu Make His Move Production Committee

Yohei Azakami (Kennosuke Tokisada Oma in Kuromukuro) is voicing the kohai Ayumu Tanaka, while Kanna Nakamura is playing the role of the Shogi club’s Urushi Yaotome. SILVER LINK is producing the anime under Mirai Minato’s direction, and the release is scheduled for July 7.

Kodansha licensed the manga for English releases and describes Volume 1 as:
Yaotome’s the president of the shogi club at her high school, and she’s pretty sure that Ayumu, an underclassman and the only other member of the club, has a huge crush on her. They get together to play shogi every day after school, but no matter what she does, she can’t seem to get him to confess his feelings! What she doesn’t know is that Ayumu has made a pact with himself to reveal his love only after he’s beaten Yaotome at shogi for the first time. Yet there’s one big issue with this plan…he really sucks!

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Call of the Night

Dagashi Kashi author Kotoyama has another boy-meets-girl story, titled Call of the Night. The series is coming to keep you company during the hot summer nights. It was voted as the most anticipated non-sequel anime in Anime Corner’s Most Anticipated Summer 2022 Anime poll.

The story follows a schoolboy Ko Yamori, who goes outside one night and meets a woman Nazuna Nanakusa, whom he later finds out is a vampire. The manga has been running in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine since August 2019 and will release Volume 12 in July 2022. The manga’s title is named after Creepy Nuts’ song of the same name, Yofukashi no Uta in Japanese.

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© 2022 Kotoyama, Shogakukan / “Call of the Night” Production Committee

Gen Sato (Fumiya Tomozaki in Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki) is playing the protagonist Ko Yamori, while Sora Amamiya (Aqua in the KonoSuba series) is voicing the vampire Nazuna Nanakusa. LIDENFILMS is animating the adaptation under Tomoyuki Itamura’s direction, and the schedule is set for July 7. Creepy Nuts are taking care of both the opening and ending songs, which are titled “Daten” and “Yofukashi no Uta” respectively.

Viz Media has been publishing the English editions and introduces Volume 1 as:
One sleepless night, Ko slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! When flirtatious Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he’s stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck with a little too much bite to them… Is it just the delicious taste of his blood that makes her meet him night after night for late-night adventures, conversation and…naps? Or something else? Then, when a cute girl from Ko’s past shows up and competes for his attention, his budding relationship with the undead is put to the test!

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The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious

The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated author Wakame Konbu’s The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious is coming to defeat you in the summer of 2022 with an anime adaptation.

The young master Yuri and his new “mysterious” maid Lilith’s romantic comedy story has been serialized in Square Enix’s magazine Monthly Gangan Joker since January 2020. The manga released its 5th volume in February 2022.

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© Wakame Konbu / SQUARE ENIX, “The Maid I Hired Recently Is Suspicious” Production Committee

Saori Hayami (Yor Forger in Spy x Family) is voicing the little master Yuri, and Rie Takahashi (Megumin in the KonoSuba series) is playing as the maid Lilith. The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated anime’s studio SILVER LINK. and director Mirai Minato are returning to work on the anime with studio BLADE. The show will premiere on July 23.

Yen Press, the official English licenser, describes the plot of Volume 1 as:
There’s something really strange about the maid I just hired! No normal person could be so beautiful, or cook such amazingly delicious food, or know exactly what I want before I even ask. She must be using magic—right, a spell is the only thing that can explain why my chest feels so tight whenever I look at her. I swear, I’m going to get to the bottom of what makes this maid so…mysterious!

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Engage Kiss

Other than the abovementioned manga-inspired anime, this season has an original anime for which Fumiaki Maruto, the creator of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, wrote the script: Engage Kiss. In addition to Maruto, Tsunako (Date a Live illustrator) is doing character designs for the work. A-1 Pictures (the studio that also worked on Saekano anime) is animating the series under Tomoya Tanaka’s direction. The anime will begin airing on July 2.

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© BCE/Project Engage

The official website describes the plot as:
Baylon City, a mega-floating city created by the discovery of new energy resources. A young man named Shu runs a small company there. He is living a hard life because of his daily spending sprees that he has trouble keeping under control. Worried about Shu, a girl named Kisara visits him at his office and home. She attends a high school in Baylon City and takes care of everything from office work to household chores. Another girl, Ayano, a senior employee of Shu’s former company and his ex-lover, also cares for him.
A slapstick love comedy involving three people with slightly unusual relationships on a man-made island in the Pacific Ocean is about to begin! Especially once a nun, who is a part of the world’s largest exorcist organization, infiltrates the city!

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New Summer 2022 Anime With Notable Original Creators
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