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Kowloon Generic Romance Anime Casts Yuriko Yamaguchi
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The official Instagram account for the television anime of Jun Mayuzuki's Kowloon Generic Romance manga announced on Saturday that the anime has cast Yuriko Yamaguchi as "Kujirai-B," who looks just like Reiko Kujirai.
Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai―one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself…
Haruka Shiraishi plays Kowloon-based real estate agent Reiko Kujirai (pictured right in image above) in the anime, while Tomokazu Sugita plays her colleague Hajime Kudō.
The other cast members include:
Yoshiaki Iwasaki (Love Hina, We Never Learn: BOKUBEN) is directing the anime at Arvo Animation. Jin Tanaka (Oshi no Ko) is writing the script. Yuka Shibata (Kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You) is designing the characters. Yūji Kaneko (Kill la Kill) is the art director.
The group Wednesday Campanella performs the opening theme song "Summertime Ghost," and singer-songwriter mekakushe performs the ending theme song "Koi no Retronym" (A Retronym for Love).
The anime premiered on April 5. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.
The manga is also inspiring a live-action film that will open this summer. Riho Yoshioka (Blind, Anime Supremacy!) plays Reiko Kujirai in the live-action film, while Kōshi Mizukami (Nina, My Love) plays Hajima Kudō.
Mayuzuki launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine in November 2019. Shueisha published the manga's 10th compiled book volume on October 18. Yen Press released the eighth volume on September 17.
Mayuzuki's previous manga was After the Rain, which launched in Shogakukan's Monthly Big Comic Spirits magazine in 2014 and transferred to Weekly Big Comic Spirits in early 2016, where it serialized a new chapter every other week until it ended in March 2018. Shogakukan published the manga's 10th and final volume in April 2018. Vertical licensed the manga, and released the complete manga in five omnibus volumes
The After the Rain manga's 12-episode television anime adaptation premiered in January 2018 on the Noitamina programming block on Fuji TV. The show streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime Video inside and outside of Japan. The manga also inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan in May 2018.
Sources: Kowloon Generic Romance anime's Instagram account, Comic Natalie
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