Live-Action Kowloon Generic Romance Film Reveals Anime ‘Crossover’ Video

The staff for the upcoming live-action film of Jun Mayuzuki‘s Kowloon Generic Romance manga streamed a new crossover promotional video between the film and the earlier anime on Sunday, after the final anime episode aired. The staff also announced that the live-action film’s star Riho Yoshioka played the goldfish Success in the anime.

The film will screen at the the JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film event at New York on July 13.

The film will open in theaters in Japan on August 29.

Yoshioka (Blind, Anime Supremacy!) plays Reiko Kujirai in the live-action film, while Kōshi Mizukami (Nina, My Love) plays Hajime Kudō. Other cast members include:

• Ryō Ryūsei as Miyuki Hebinuma
• Shuntarō Yanagi as Tao Guen
• Minami Umezawa as Yōmei
• Kotone Hanase as Xiaohei
• Figaro Tseng as Yūlong
• Takashi Yamanaka as Lee
• Sahel Rosa as hostess at the Club Banri snack bar
• Mandy Sekiguchi as advertising staff of Hebinuma Pharmaceuticals
• Kyūsaku Shimada as Shū

Yen Press is releasing the manga in English and describes the story:

Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai―one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself…

Mayuzuki launched the manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Young Jump magazine in November 2019. Shueisha published the manga’s 11th compiled book volume on April 17. Yen Press will release the 10th volume on October 28.

The manga’s anime adaptation premiered on April 5. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, along with an English dub.

Mayuzuki’s previous manga was After the Rain, which launched in Shogakukan‘s Monthly Big Comic Spirits magazine in 2014 and transferred to Weekly Big Comic Spirits in early 2016, where it serialized a new chapter every other week until it ended in March 2018. Shogakukan published the manga’s 10th and final volume in April 2018. Vertical licensed the manga, and released the complete manga in five omnibus volumes

The After the Rain manga’s 12-episode television anime adaptation premiered in January 2018 on the Noitamina programming block on Fuji TV. The show streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime Video inside and outside of Japan. The manga also inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan in May 2018.

Sources: Emotion Label’s YouTube channel, Comic Natalie