The official website and Twitter account for the live-action TV drama adaptation of Yae Utsumi's The Shadows of Who We Once Were (Nare no Hate no Bokura) manga has announced the cast members for the former Grade 6 Class 2 students, who were involved in the 52-hour confinement incident in Yonotsuka Elementary School.
HiHi Jets idol group member Mizuki Inoue has been cast as Tōru "Nezu" Sanada.
Atsuhiro Inukai has been cast as Mikio Yumesaki.
Nezu was looking forward to his elementary school reunion—after all, his class was united by unbreakable bonds. But when his former classmate, Mikio, reveals that this reunion is a very real matter of life and death...suddenly Nezu finds those bonds put to the test.
The Shadows of Who We Once Were is set to premiere on June 27 on TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, TVQ Broadcasting Kyushu.
NEW CAST ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Yuzu Kitahara as Sumire Aizawa /
Yuno Ōhara as Suzuko Amamiya /
Haruka Kudō as Reika Ishii /
Taisei Kusano as Tatsuo Oikawa /
Hikari Kabashima as Aya Asanai /
Ryū Saitō as Gen Kajiwara /
Sakurako Ōhara as Mirai Kirishima /
Takuya Nishimura as Daiki Kuroda /
Rin Abe as Yui Koshimizu /
Araki Sugō as Kikuya Saotome
MAIN CAST:
Mizuki Inoue as Tōru "Nezu" Sanada
Atsuhiro Inukai as Mikio Yumesaki
Hideo Jojo, Keisuke Shibata, and Masayuki Matoba are directing the series, with scripts by Hideo Jojo, Moral, Ai Suzuki, and Yūta Kurachi.
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