A Condition Called Love’s Teaser Trailer Offers Warmth in Winter

Long-haired Hananoi-kun makes his debut in A Condition Called Love’s teaser trailer.

Winter won’t be so cold this year thanks to Hotaru’s umbrella.

A teaser trailer of A Condition Called Love has been released, revealing the voice actors for the two main characters. Kana Hanazawa (Akane Tsunemori from Psycho-Pass) will voice Hotaru Hinase. Chiaki Kobayashi (Louis James Moriarty from Moriarty the Patriot) voices Hananoi-kun. The teaser trailer showcases how Hananoi-kun looks with both long and short hair as well as the fateful meeting between Hotaru and Hananoi at that park.

East Fish Studio will animate and produce the series with director Tomoe Makino at the helm. Hitomi Amamiya will oversee the series composition while Akiko Sato will work on the character designs. yamazo will compose the music score.

Written and illustrated by Megumi Morino, A Condition Called Love follows high school first-year Hotaru, who has never found much luck with love and is perfectly content to live life with her friends and family, happens across her classmate sitting alone in the snow after a messy breakup. Feeling a little sorry for him, she shields Hananoi-kun with her umbrella. However, this single act of kindness prompts Hananoi-kun to ask her out the next day in front of everyone, thoroughly confusing Hotaru and her heart.

The manga began serialization in Kodansha’s magazine Dessert in December 2017 and is currently ongoing. The chapters have been collected into 12 tankōbon volumes as of January 2023. Kodansha USA publishes the series Digital and announced it would begin a print publication in the second quarter of 2023.

A Condition Called Love launches in April 2024.

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