The Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian romantic comedy light novels are getting adapted into a TV anime, an announcement video has revealed.
As with the light novels’ promotional videos, the main voice cast will include Sumire Uesaka as the titular Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou and Kouhei Amasaki as Masachika Kuze.
Sunsunsun wrote the Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian books with Momoko as illustrator. The series, which is published under the Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko label, began in 2021 and has six volumes (including a short story collection) as of November 2022. The sixth main volume will be released on April 1.
Yen Press describes the light novels as:
Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou is Seiren Private Academy’s “solitary princess.” She’s a half-Russian beauty with silver hair, at the top of her class, student council accountant, and…completely unapproachable. For some reason, she’s also taken on the responsibility of reprimanding the slacker who sits next to her in class. Masachika Kuze is constantly frustrating her by falling asleep, forgetting his textbooks, and just being an overall unexemplary student. Or at least, that’s how it looks from the outside. She may put on a tough act, but she doesn’t mind Masachika as much as others would think. She even lets him call her by her nickname, Alya. Anyone hearing the comments she mutters in Russian under her breath might know how she really feels, but since none of her classmates understand the language, she’s free to say whatever she likes! Except…there is one person who knows what she’s saying. Masachika eavesdrops on her embarrassing revelations, pretending to be clueless, all the while wondering what her flirtatious comments actually mean!
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian was originally a short story that was published on Shousetsuka ni Narou in 2020. A Kodansha-published manga adaptation by Saho Tenamachi began on October 29, 2022.
Source: KADOKAWAanime YouTube channel
