Summer anime “Senpai wa Otoko no Ko” series: Series Composition: Yoriko Tomita | The conversation between Ryuji and Saki at the beginning of episode 10. I think that is the quickest way to eliminate discrimination and prejudice.”Senpai wa Otoko no Ko” is a webtoon serialized on LINE Manga that won third place in the Web Manga category of the “Next Manga Awards 2021” and first place in the “5th Manga Ranking for Anime Adaptation”. The TV anime of this work, which carefully depicts the human relationships between Makoto Hanaoka, a boy who loves cute things, his junior, Emi Aoi, and his best friend Ryuji Oga, and the process of their growth, will be broadcast on Fuji TV’s “Noitamina” and other stations from 24:55 every Thursday from July 4, 2024.

Animate Times is running a series of interviews looking back on the anime broadcast! This time, we asked series composer Yoriko Tomita about her impressions of the original author, Pom-sensei, and what to look forward to in the future.

–What was your first impression when you read the original work and what you found interesting about it?

Series Composition: Yoriko Tomita (hereafter, Tomita): My first impression was that the illustrations were very beautiful, and I thought the colors were especially beautiful and wonderful. What I found interesting was that there were many frames drawn in a deformed style, which made it easy to see the story’s rhythm.

–Please tell us your impression of the original author, Pom-sensei.

Tomita: I met Pom-sensei once, and I thought she was a very delicate, sweet, and cute person, just like the pictures she drew. After that, we mainly communicated by email through the person in charge at LINE Manga, and after several exchanges, I noticed that Pom-sensei called Saki “Saki-chan,” which I thought was very Pom-sensei-like.

–What was the most difficult episode or scene for you to write the script for in this series?

Tomita: Episodes 4 and 5. I don’t want to go into why that is, as it would take too long to explain the differences between the media from scratch, but I roughly thought I would make episode 4 mainly about Ryuji (Ryuji), and episode 5 mainly about Saki, so I swapped out some episodes from the original so that each character’s feelings would be better conveyed. However, I had to incorporate Saki’s feelings little by little from episode 4 onwards, so that was difficult.