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Live-Action Rent-A-Girlfriend Show Casts Chizuru Voice Actress Sora Amamiya — as a Game Character

posted on by Egan Loo
Main lead Kazuya's grandmother is hooked on game featuring Amamiya's character

The staff for the live-action Sora Amamiya also stars in the live-action show.

In the live-action series, Nagomi Kinoshita, the grandmother of the main lead Kazuya, is hooked on a particular game, and Amamiya plays a character in that game. Amamiya said that she did not even consider the possibility of being involved in the live-action series, so she was stunned when she was told about the role. She was extremely happy that the entire live-action staff was pleased with her dialogue recording.

publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

You can rent a girlfriend, but can you buy love? Hapless college first-year Kazuya Kinoshita, reeling from a bad breakup, rents a few hours of friendly companionship at the aquarium with the idol-beautiful and polite Chizuru. But rock bottom might be lower than Kazuya thought! Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, and to make matters worse, Chizuru is much more than the pretty face and sweet demeanor he thought he'd bargained for...

Twilight) star as the protagonist Kazuya Kinoshita and the heroine Chizuru Mizuhara, respectively.

The other cast cast include:

Shiori Akita as Mami Nanami

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Saki Achiga-hen episode of side-A, Mashin Sentai Kiramager) as Ruka Sarashina

Model and actress Aika Sawaguchi as Sumi Sakurasawa

Hana Kino as Nagomi Kinoshita, Kazuya's grandmother

Mayumi Asaka as Sayuri, Chizuru's grandmother

Kaoru Noguchi as Harumi Kinoshita, Kazuya's mother

Shunya Kaneko as Kazuya's friend

Kōsuke Suzuki as Kazuya's friend

Comedian Oideyasu Oda (Come Come Everybody, Birds Without Names) as Kazuo Kinoshita, the father of the main lead Kazuya

Kumiko Asō (Marumo no Okite) is writing the scripts. Yūki Munakata is composing the music. The staff finished principal photography in June.

The series premiered on the Hulu services in Japan.

Miyajima received a manga anthology on August 17, 2020.

The manga also inspired a television stream the anime as it airs.

Source: Comic Natalie


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