A new key visual and trailer have been released for the ongoing Grow Up Show TV anime series, spotlighting the show’s “Circus Collection” story arc. The anime began broadcasting in Japan on July 4, 2026.
Kanta Kamei (director of the Saekano -How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend series and chief director of the Saekano movie) is directing the original anime series, with Takeshi Kikuchi (Skeleton Knight in Another World) as series composer and scriptwriter, Kurehito Misaki (Saekano light novels’ illustrator) as original character designer, and Yugo Kanno (STEEL BALL RUN Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) as music composer. A-1 Pictures is handling the animation production with its Psyde Kick Studio label.
Other staff include Satsuki Takahashi as assistant director, Masaki Inada (NieR:Automata Ver1.1a CG action supervisor and Blender supervisor) as action supervisor, Ayane Matsumoto (Hyakusho Kizoku-the farmer’s days character designer, animation director, and animator) as picture book designer and effects designer, Junko Yamada as time period researcher, illustrator Munashichi as image board artist
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • Tomoka Noda as Mizuka Tsurumaki
- • Rie Kugimiya as Maria
- • Shiori Kurosaki as Oka Kawasumi
- • Reo Osanai as Imari Ogano
- • Nanako Ando as Isuzu Ikazuchi
- • Tomori Kusunoki as Aoi Yura
- • Yuko Natsuyoshi as Akane Yura
- • Yuna Kamakura as Shizuku Sakawa
- • Yuka Iwahashi as Svetlana
- • Ai Kayano as Rin Mamiya
Crunchyroll is streaming Grow Up Show in select countries and territories, describing the synopsis as:
Step right up to 1950s Japan! The postwar economy is booming, but the Sunflower Circus is not. Led by ringmaster Maria, the cash-strapped troupe tours the country in desperate competition for a spot in the Circus Collection–an elite global festival. When circus prodigy Mizuka Tsurumaki joins their ranks, the Sunflower Circus’s fortune shifts, finally giving them a shot at big top glory.
Sources: Grow Up Show Official X/Twitter (2), Anime News Network
