Haru to Gen Short Anime Sets January 4 Premiere and Cast
The cast announcement completes the production picture for a short-format adaptation of Yuka Ōshima's webcomic, with the premiere now set on a specific channel and time.
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A new teaser for the short-format anime Haru to Gen ~70-sai, Hajimete Kosodate~ names its cast and its January 4 premiere. Bin Shimada plays Gen, a divorced 70-year-old man living alone. Hiromi Igarashi plays his granddaughter Haru, and Mayuko Kazama plays Sakura, Gen's only daughter, who died from an illness. The anime airs on tvk at 9:55 p.m. on January 4.
The adaptation comes from IMAGICA Infos and Imageworks Studio in collaboration with Studio Nanahoshi, with Kōdai Satō directing. bermei.inazawa composes the music, and Kazuya Takahashi is the executive producer. Ōshima launched the manga on Kadokawa's TATESC vertical-scrolling, full-color webcomic label in December 2022, and Kadokawa published the first compiled volume in March 2024. The story follows Gen, estranged from his wife and daughter after a divorce years earlier, who takes in his three-year-old granddaughter after his daughter's death.
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