The official Twitter for the anime Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshi Kosei o Hirou. (I Shaved My Beard. Then I Pick Up a High School Girl.) inspired by the light novel by author Shimesaba and illustrator Booota revealed the anime's main staff and the designs of the main characters, Sayu and Yoshida .
Staff
Manabu Kamikita is directing the anime at studio Project No.9 (Pastel Memories, Super HxEros). Takayuki Noguchi is doing the character design. Deko Akao ( Noragami ) is writing the script while Dream Shift (Ryuuou no Oshigoto!) is producing the anime.
Synopsis
Salary worker, Yoshida, has been in love with his co-worker, Airi Gotou, for five years. Despite finally arranging a meeting with her, his confession is promptly rejected. Drunk and disappointed, he stumbles home, only to find a high school girl sitting on the side of the road. The girl, needing a place to spend the night, tries to seduce Yoshida. Despite rejecting her advances, he invites her to her apartment.
The next morning, the girl, introducing herself as Sayu Ogiwara, reveals that she fled Hokkaido for Tokyo. During her six months on the run, she exchanged sexual favors for a place to stay. Yoshida, however, remains indifferent to her seduction. Instead, he asks her to do a different kind of work – one that involves washing dishes, clothes and taking care of the house. And so, a heartbreaking relationship between a heartbroken adult and a runaway high school girl begins.
Shimebasa started publishing Hige o Soru. Soshite Joshi Kosei o Hirou on the Kakuyomu website in 2017, and Kadokawa Shoten published the first volume with illustrations by Booota on Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko in 2018, with 4 volumes to date.
The light novel also received a manga adaptation in November 2018 by Kadokawa Shoten in Monthly Shonen Ace illustrated by Imaru Adachi, the manga has 3 volumes to date.
Sources: @higehiro_anime and Comic Natalie
