Hirayasumi's anime fills out Hiroto's circle with Daisuke Namikawa, Yoko Hikasa, Yume Miyamoto and Yuichiro Umehara
Four more voices and a narrator, Yuko Naito, join Production +h.'s NHK adaptation of Keigo Shinzo's slice-of-life manga, due in January 2027 as the source series heads into its last two chapters.
With the manga it adapts down to its final two chapters, the TV anime of Hirayasumi keeps adding to its roster. The official website named five more cast members on October 13, rounding out the people who orbit Hiroto Ikuta, the 29-year-old at the center of Keigo Shinzo's slice-of-life series.
The newcomers, each introduced in MyAnimeList's report with a past role:
- Hideki Noguchi will be voiced by Daisuke Namikawa, of the 2011 Hunter x Hunter
- Yomogi Tachibana goes to Yoko Hikasa, from High School DxD
- Akari Yokoyama is in the hands of Yume Miyamoto, whose credits include SSSS.Gridman
- Ryo Ishikawa will be played by Goblin Slayer lead Yuichiro Umehara
- The narration is Yuko Naito's
They join the leads announced in late September: Yuma Uchida plays Hiroto, Natsumi Kobayashi is voiced by Mayu Takahashi, and Rikako Aikawa is Hanae Wada, the elderly woman everyone calls Granny. Hiroto has no girlfriend, no steady job and no particular plans, and is perfectly at ease with all three; the series follows him and the people around him as they work through worry, uncertainty and loss.
Production +h. is animating, the studio AnimeTV credits with The Orbital Children and Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction. Kei Suezawa directs and also writes the series composition and every script. Naoyuki Asano, character designer on Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, adapts Shinzo's cast, Mika Nishimura is art director, and Kaori Sawada composes the score. The series begins on NHK General TV in January 2027; no exact date has been given yet.
Shinzo has been drawing the manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits since April 2021. It won the 71st Shogakukan Manga Award, has topped 1.7 million copies worldwide, and is published in English by VIZ Media. According to AnimeTV, its roots lie in an autobiographical one-shot drawing on Shinzo's own cancer treatment, for lymphoma, at the height of the pandemic. The anime itself was first revealed in July 2025, together with a live-action adaptation.
