The official website of the previously announced Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita. (Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It) television anime revealed the cast, production staff members, and a key visual (pictured) on Wednesday. The anime adaptation of Alfred Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga, also known by its short name RikeKoi, will air in 2020.

Cast
Shinya Yukimura: Yuuma Uchida (Banana Fish)
Ayame Himuro: Sora Amamiya (Akame ga Kill!)
Kotonoha Kanade: Natsuko Hara (Hajimete no Gal)
Ena Ibarada: Nichika Oomori (Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!?)
Kosuke Inukai: Jun Fukushima (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!)
Kyouju Ikeda: Ryotaro Okiayu (Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun)
Rikekuma: Momo Asakura (Charlotte)

Staff
Director: Tooru Kitahata (Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Next)
Assistant Director: Kenta Oonishi (Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory episode director)
Series Composition: Rintarou Ikeda (Renai Boukun script)
Script: Rintarou Ikeda, Michiko Yokote (Nagi no Asu kara)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Yuusuke Isouchi (One Piece animation director)
Prop Design: Mahiru Shinya (Gunjou no Magmell)
Background Art: Totonyan (Net-juu no Susume)
Art Director: Hirofumi Sakagami (Imouto sae Ireba Ii.)
Color Design: Aiko Matsuyama (Grand Blue)
Director of Photography: Kousuke Tanaka (Masou Gakuen HxH)
Editing: Masamitsu Utsunomiya (Dive!!)
Sound Director: Yuuichi Imaizumi (Sora to Umi no Aida)
Background Music: Supa Love
Producer: Shunsuke Saitou (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso)
Executive Producer: Kouichirou Natsume (Jashin-chan Dropkick)
Studio: Zero-G

Kaoru Ootsuka, hisakuni, and Takuma Sogi are reuniting as music composers from their previous work Shichisei no Subaru. Shouichirou Hirata (ClassicaLoid theme song composition), Shuuhei Takahashi (Miss Monochrome: The Animation insert song composition), and Yuuko Takahashi are also credited for music.

Yamamoto originally launched the manga as a one-shot in Comic Meteor web magazine in March 2016, which began regular serialization in May of the same year. Flex Comix will publish the sixth volume on July 11. RikeKoi has a cumulative 750,000 copies of its compiled volumes in print.

The manga inspired a four-episode live-action drama series in September 2018. A live-action film opened in Japan on February 1.

Source: Comic Natalie