It’s been a while since we had an adaptation of the 1908 novel series, Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but a new one was on track for spring 2025 with Anne Shirley. The new project was set for an April 2025 debut on NHK’s E-Tele channel with Answer Studio handling the production. The series has Hiroshi Kawamata directing it at Answer Studio with Kenichi Tsuchiya on the character designs.
With a two-cour run planned with an April 5th, 2025, premiere date, Crunchyroll made its pickup for it. With the series underway, the Japanese production has now put out its first preview of the tenth episode, due out on June 7th, 2025.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Honoka Inoue as Anne Shirley
- Aya Nakamura as Marilla Cuthbert
- Yasunori Matsumoto as Matthew Cuthbert
- Naoya Miyase as Gilbert Blythe
- Yume Miyamoto as Diana Barry
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Book Concept: Eleven-year-old orphan Anne Shirley has just arrived at Green Gables, and already her guardians want to send her back. First, she’s not the boy the Cuthberts expected. Second, she talks too much. And even with her generous spirit, the redhead’s a trouble magnet. She gets the neighbor drunk and nearly poisons the pastor!
Still, despite a rocky start, the fiery Anne wins over her guardians and her new community. She enjoys life at Green Gables, excels in school, and earns a coveted scholarship. But when tragedy hits, Anne must choose between her dreams and the only home she’s ever known.
