Murai in Love

Murai in Love is a 2024 anime series based on the manga with the same name written and illustrated by Junta Shima. It was serialized and published digitally by Line Digital Frontier, and Media Factory's Line Manga magazine under their Gene Line Comics imprint from June 18, 2018 to June 13, 2022, with a total of 7 volumes.

The anime series was announced on June 15, 2022.^[1] It was animated by J.C. Staff, directed by Yoshiki Yamakawa, series composition by Susumu Yamakawa, music composed by Ruka Kawada, and it premiered on both Disney+ and Hulu from September 4, 2024 to November 20, 2024, while it aired in Japan from October 6, 2024 to December 22, 2024, consisting of 12 episodes.

The English Dub of the series was released on March 10, 2025 on Disney+, and on Hulu on March 12, 2025.^[2]

Synopsis

Murai is a second-year student at Takebe Gakuen High School enrolled in the college preparatory course. His homeroom teacher, Tanaka, summons him to her office after he declares that his post-high school plans are to marry her. Tanaka rejects Murai, telling him that she would never be interested in a boy with long, black hair. Secretly an otaku, she has eyes only for Hitotose, a character from an otome video game.

The next day, Murai appears before Tanaka a changed man. Having cut his hair short and dyed it blond, Murai looks exactly like her beloved Hitotose. Tanaka is unable to hide her shock at this sudden development and tries to distance herself from Murai, while Murai presses on in his attempts to romance his teacher.

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Murai	Kengo Takanashi	Brandon Winckler
	Murai	Yuka Nukui (young)	Daisy Guevara
	Ayano Tanaka	Yōko Hikasa	Morgan Garrett
	Hitotose	Nobunaga Shimazaki	Michael Sinterniklaas
Secondary Characters
	Yamakado	Masaya Matsukaze	Crispin Freeman
	Kiriyama	Kōhei Amasaki	John Patneaude
	Hirai	Haruki Ishiya	Matt Shipman
	Hitomo Nishifuji	Mikoi Sasaki	Felecia Angelle
	Yuka Nishifuji	Saori Gotō	Diana Garnet
	Yayoi Fukunaga	Yūki Hirose	Laura Stahl
	Mao	Masaaki Mizunaka	Ricco Fajardo
	Mao	Asuna Tomari (young; ep. 6)	Cassie Ewulu
Narration
	Narrator	Hōchū Ōtsuka	Christopher Sabat

Episodic Characters[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Ep(s).
Master	¿?	Brook Chalmers	3
Naoko Kiriyama	Shizuka Itō	Dorothy Elias-Fahn	3-4
Takafumi Kiriyama	Yasuhiro Mamiya	Brook Chalmers	3-4
Apprentice	Taito Ban	Ben Balmaceda	3-4, 10-11
Liver	Reigo Yamaguchi	Keith Silverstein	4
Brain	¿?	Morgan Garrett
Kombumaki-kun	¿?	Laura Stahl
Lung	Shōya Ishige	Mick Lauer	4, 9
Spleen	Yoshihito Sasaki	Kirk Thornton
Heart	Masashi Nogawa	Brent Mukai
Kidney	Eiji Hanawa	Frank Todaro	4, 6, 9-10
Onigiri-kun	¿?	Brandon Winckler	4, 8-9, 11
Yasutoshi Murai	Hirofumi Nojima	Keith Silverstein	5, 8, 11
Takaomi Nakajima	Kenn	Nazeeh Tarsha	6-7
Furutani	Yurika Kubo	Michelle Rojas	6-7
Kohei Tsutsumi	Yūdai Mino	Mick Lauer	7
Rei Fukunaga	Reiji Kawashima	Joshua David King
Hiroshi Mizokami	Seiichirō Yamashita	Ben Balmaceda
Chari Kobayashi	Yōhei Azakami	Tom Fahn
Ohsumi	¿?	Kevin K. Gomez	7, 9
Nozomu Hirai	Shizuka Ishigami	Cassie Ewulu	8
Hirai's Father	Kenji Hamada	Mick Lauer	8
Hirai's Mother	¿?	Meli Grant	8-9
Yamada	Taishi Murata	Brent Mukai	9, 11
Takebe Principal	Mie Sonozaki	Meli Grant	9, 11
Takebe Assistant Principal	Yutaka Aoyama	Kirk Thornton	11
Chairman	¿?	Frank Todaro	11