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I'm Kodama Kawashiri Manga Gets Live-Action Short Series With Kanna Hashimoto

The I'm Kodama Kawashiri manga is getting a live-action short series with 25 episodes.

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Why it matters

The adaptation moves Kodama Kawashiri from a late-night variety slot and a Crunchyroll anime run to a weekday morning NTV block paired with a Hulu release, so the live-action version is built for the ZIP! audience rather than the original manga's Twitter readership.

I'm Kodama Kawashiri Manga Gets Live-Action Short Series With Kanna Hashimoto

Key Facts

  • The I'm Kodama Kawashiri manga is getting a live-action short series with 25 episodes.
  • Kanna Hashimoto stars as Kodama, and Yuichi Fukuda directs and writes the series.
  • Hulu exclusively streams five short episodes on Mondays starting January 11 at 6:00 a.m. JST.
  • NTV's morning show ZIP! airs each set of five episodes once a day that week.
  • Two exclusive episodes launch on Hulu on Fridays.

Hulu exclusively streams five short episodes on Mondays starting January 11 at 6:00 a.m. JST, and each set of five then airs once a day on NTV's ZIP! that week. Two exclusive episodes also launch on Hulu on Fridays. Kanna Hashimoto stars as Kodama, and Yuichi Fukuda directs and writes.

Kanna Hashimoto plays Kodama, and Yuichi Fukuda writes and directs. The schedule splits the 25 episodes into five-episode sets: Hulu puts up five on a Monday, then NTV's morning show ZIP! airs those five once a day across the rest of that week, with two more episodes arriving on Hulu each Friday. The manga runs on Kodama Kawajiri's Twitter account, which the article says has more than 425,000 followers, and Kadokawa published the third compiled volume in January 2024.

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