Joseph Luster
February 16, 2024 
A new cast member has been revealed for the upcoming 2.5 Dimensional Seduction anime, which is getting ready to serve up an adaptation of Yu Hashimoto’s manga this July. The latest to join the cast is M.A.O. (Shion in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime), who will voice a high school teacher named Mayuri Hanyu, who also used to cosplay.
You can meet her in the brief preview below.
The 2.5 Dimensional Seduction anime is being made at J.C. Staff, with Hideki Okamoto of Bakugan: Evolutions helming the project as director. The task of series composition has been given to Takao Yoshioka, who is known for working on Horimiya. Credit for character design goes to Tomoyuki Shitaya of Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma. The music is composed by Hiroaki Tsutsumi, who has worked on Dr. STONE.
The anime is based on a manga by Yū Hashimoto, which debuted in 2019. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English and gave this description for its plot:
“I have no interest in real girls!” So claims Okumura, the president of the school’s manga club. He’s your typical otaku, obsessed with a sexy (fictional) 2D manga character known as Lilliel. Then the new school year starts, and a (real!) 3D girl named Lilysa whose passion is cosplay joins the club. Lilysa convinces Okumura to become her photographer–and guess who her favorite manga character is? Not only that, but Lilysa is into modeling the fetishy stuff! The boundaries between 2D and 3D start to blur as this hot-blooded romantic comedy unfolds.
