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Live-Action Kami-sama no Ekohiiki Series Reveals Additional Cast, Visual
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The offiical website for the live-action series Kami-sama no Ekohiiki (Favoritism of the Gods) manga revealed on Wednesday a visual and additional cast.
The newly announced cast includes:
- Yashiro's mother
- Hisae Morishita as Sakuya Tendō, Kagura's mother
- Oolong ta Yoshida as Takeru Tendō, Kagura's father
- Mai Ohtani as Miko Nanahara, Kenta's mother
The show will star: (from left to right in top row then in bottom row in above image)
- Taiyu Fujiwara as Yashiro Amano
- Hiyori Sakurada as Kagura Tendō
- Airu Kubotuka as Kenta Nanahara
- Yūki Furukawa as God (Kami-sama)
- Maira Arai as Rin Torii
The series will Hulu on March 19.
The show will air two episodes at a time every Saturday, and will have a total of eight episodes. Yūsaku Matsumoto is directing the series, and Ayako Kitagawa is penning the scripts.
The live-action series is the third in a collaboration between A Devil and Her Love Song manga.
Komura's manga centers on Yashiro, a high school boy who visits a local shrine 100 times to ask for confidence from the local god to confess his feelings to his friend Kenta. When he finally does it, Kenta turns him down, saying to Yashiro that he only likes girls. While heartbroken, he has an accident and dies. When he is brought back to life by the god to whom he prayed, the god informs him that he has given him a new life as a high school girl, and a chance to repeat his confession to Kenta in his new form.
Komura ended with five volumes in June 2018.
listed the first Mixed Vegetables volume among the "great graphic novels for teens" published in 2009.
Sources: Live-action Kami-sama no Ekohiiki series' website, Comic Natalie
