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Funimation Previews 'And you thought there is never a girl online?' Anime's Broadcast Dub

And you thought there is never a girl online? television anime series on Wednesday. The first dubbed episode premiered on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. EDT as part of Funimation's DubbleTalk block.

The series streaming the series with English subtitles as it airs in Japan.

Funimation describes the series, based on the light novels by Shibai Kineko:

After Hideki Nishimura confesses to a girl online, he is shocked when she turns out to be a boy. Traumatized, he swears to never trust any "girl" players. That is, until one confesses to him! Ako Tamaki is a beautiful loner who has trouble differentiating between what's reality and the online world she spends so much of her time in. Can Hideki and his guild friends help fix socially inept Ako?

The anime's main Japanese cast includes:

• Lucian
• Sword Art Online's Silica) as Ako Tamaki / Ako
• School-Live!'s Yuki Takeya) as Akane Segawa / Schwein
• Overlord's Enri Emmot) as Kyō Goshōin / Apricot
• Shirobako's Midori Imai) as Nanako Akiyama/Sette
• Love Live!'s Eli Ayase) as Yui Saitō/Nekohime

Luce Twinkle Wink☆ perform the opening theme song "1st Love Story."