We learned a couple of weeks ago that the Real Girl manga from Mao Nanami is getting an anime adaptation. Now a little more information has surfaced from Dessert magazine that Takashi Naoya is on board to direct the show. Naoya recently worked on the Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru series as the director and has done a lot of episode direction in the last few years as well as serving as an animation director and working on the key animation for numerous shows going back several years.
The show has plenty of manga material to work with as it ran for twelve volumes before finishing up in the spring of 2016. A live-action feature is scheduled for 2018.
Plot Concept: Tsutsui Hikari is an otaku, and he mostly avoids social life. Hikari has only one friend at school, who is also a social misfit, and he is mocked brutally by most of his classmates for being creepy and weird. One day, he ends up having to clean the school pool with Igarashi Iroha, who appears to be pretty much everything he hates in real-life girls. She skips school, has a blunt manner, doesn’t have female friends, and seems the sort to be promiscuous. However, she is friendly to Hikari, and even stands up to the people who make fun of him. Hikari’s bitterness and trust issues lead him to say pretty harsh things to Iroha, but she never dismisses him as creepy. After a while, it starts to look like Iroha may become his first real-life, 3D girlfriend! Will he be able to handle it?
[Source: ANN]