I Shave My Beard. Then I Pick Up a High School Girl. (Hige o Soru. Soshite Joshi Kōsei o Hirou.) is a Japanese light novel that began serializing in March 2017.
It is part of an array of light novels on Kadokawa’s Sneaker Bunko on their website. The series is written by Shimesaba and illustrated by booota.
I Shave My Beard. Then I Pick Up a High School Girl had announced in December 2019 that it would receive an anime adaptation.
The official Twitter account for I Shave My Beard. Then I Pick Up a High School Girl. announced today that a production decision had been made for the anime.
Rough sketches for its characters accompanied the announcement.
TV anime “Shave the beard and pick up a high school girl.” Released the rough character settings of the main heroine [Sayu] and the main character [Yoshida].
English Translation, Twitter Translation
The staff for the anime were also announced: Manabu Kamikita will be directing the anime at Studio Project No. 9 and Takayuki Noguchi popularly known for Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu is designing its characters.
Deko Akao, known for Koi wa Ameagari no You ni and Amanchu!, will perform the series composition.
About Hige O Soru. Soshite Joshi Kōsei o Hirou
I Shave My Beard. Then I Pick Up a High School Girl is of the romance and comedy genre which revolves around a 26-year-old man named Yoshida, who works as an employee at a major IT company.
His life turns around once he meets a runaway high school girl named Sayu on his way home after drinking. Sayu suggests that they can sleep together if he provides her with shelter in his house.
Yoshida gets angry and scolds her at first. However, he looks back at his life and remembers that he became a drunk after his five-year-long crush rejected him, and eventually, he lets her stay with him.
I Shave My Beard. Then I Pick Up a High School Girl who has been serializing for almost three years now and has over 400,000 copies in circulation overall (digital copies included).
The first compiled book started shipping in February 2018, the second volume was published as a compiled book in October 2018, and the third volume shipped in February 2019.
The series had previously gotten a manga adaptation by Imaru Adachi in Kadokawa’s Monthly Shonen Ace magazine in November 2018.
This is Shimesaba’s first well-known novel. Booota is known for his work in Seven Senses of the Re’ Union, penguin highway, and The Dark Maidens.
Source: Twitter
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