Hand-drawn anime-style illustration of Ayra Starr in a gold mini dress and purple headwrap, firing a pink beam from her fingertip on a star-shaped stage in a neon purple city at night, with a grey cat in a green scarf at her feet and the Starrgirl logo in the top corner

Ayra Starr’s Starrgirl Cover Turns Anime on a New Crunchyroll Vinyl

On the cover of Starrgirl, Ayra Starr stands in a gold mini dress and a purple headwrap and fires a pink beam from her fingertip into the dark. On November 10, 2026, she announced a Starrgirl vinyl made with Crunchyroll, with that same pose drawn again by hand.

Her post credits the art as “hand drawn by mic maeda.” Mic Maeda keeps the dress, the heels, the curls and the beam, then moves her onto a star-shaped stage in a neon purple city at night, with searchlights behind her and a grey cat in a green scarf at her feet. The Starrgirl wordmark sits in the top corner. It looks like a frame from an anime title sequence, and Crunchyroll, the anime streaming service, reposted the announcement from its own account minutes later.

The album has been on vinyl since release day, as a purple swirl pressing with a signed insert sold through her own store.

Starrgirl is her third studio album, after 19 & Dangerous in 2021 and The Year I Turned 21 in 2024. Mavin put it out on August 14 with 16 tracks, including ZAYN on “Heaven Baby,” kwn on “Amazing” and Theodora on “Ms. Paper,” and it passed 300 million Spotify streams by late October.

She signed off with “Pre-order it now. Link in bio.”