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Live-Action An Older Guy's VR First Love Series Reveals 8 More Cast
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Kō Maehara, more cast of April 1 series

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The newly announced cast are:
- Reina Tanaka as Asuka Ashihara
- Hinata Hiiragi as Aoi Ashihara
- Kō Maehara as Kōsuke Hori
- Neo Inoue as Aoi
- Keiko Horiuchi as Hitomi Sasaki
- Yoshihiko Hosoda as Ryūnosuke Sawada
- Hazuki Seto as Mami Katō
- Yuzu Aoki as Yūto Arai
The series will premiere on NHK on April 1 at 10:45 p.m. JST.
Toru Namaguchi stars in the drama as protagonist Naoki Endō in real life. Anna Kurasawa plays Naoki, the online persona of Naoki Endō. Takashi Watanabe is composing the music.
publishes the manga in English, and released the manga in November 2022. Kodansha USA describes the story:
Naoki is forty years old, single, male, and a temp worker. But in the world of VR, he takes on the form of a lovely young girl. There, he meets his first love—the cheerful and beautiful Honami.Real life, for Naoki, was a failure. The VR world where he escapes to is coming to an end, too. But in those final moments, he finds her…
Boryoku Zero-Sum Online website in 2020. Ichijinsha released the manga's second compiled book volume in February 2023.
Source: Comic Natalie