{"rewrite":{"id":"r_3596833dba878ccc212eaf53","clusterId":"c_5c429e594a714f869295dfb9","slug":"haru-to-gen-short-anime-sets-january-4-premiere-and-cast","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Haru to Gen Short Anime Sets January 4 Premiere and Cast","summary":"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.","whyItMatters":"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.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u0026#39;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\u0026#39;s death.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Haru to Gen casts Mayuko Kazama as Sakura, a mother who is already dead when the story starts. The premise needs the audience to accept a 70-year-old learning childcare from a granddaughter raised by that absence.","twitterPost":"Haru to Gen's emotional engine is Mayuko Kazama as Sakura, a daughter who dies before the premise begins. The show airs at 9:55 p.m. on January 4 on tvk.","threadsPost":"Haru to Gen names Mayuko Kazama as Sakura, Gen's only daughter, who died of an illness. The premise of a 70-year-old first-time caregiver runs on a character the audience never meets alive, so the teaser has to sell grief as setup rather than backstory.","newsletterBlurb":"The short-format anime Haru to Gen ~70-sai, Hajimete Kosodate~ has a teaser, a cast, and a January 4 premiere on tvk. Bin Shimada plays Gen, Hiromi Igarashi plays his granddaughter Haru, and Mayuko Kazama plays his late daughter Sakura. Kōdai Satō directs at IMAGICA Infos and Imageworks Studio in collaboration with Studio Nanahoshi.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-21/haru-to-gen-~70-sai-hajimete-kosodate~-short-anime-teaser-reveals-cast-january-4-debut/.243050\",\"title\":\"'Haru to Gen ~70-sai, Hajimete Kosodate~' Short Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, January 4 Debut\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4536,"outputTokens":683,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792568231,"createdAt":"2026-10-21T07:33:04.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-21T07:36:07.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T07:36:07.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_5c429e594a714f869295dfb9","canonicalTitle":"News\n'Haru to Gen ~70-sai, Hajimete Kosodate~' Short Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, January 4 Debut","representativeArticleId":"a_05cabb9e7ac2e0558fc54a63","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"Haru to Gen ~70-sai, Hajimete Kosodate~\"],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Yuka Ōshima\",\"Bin Shimada\",\"Hiromi Igarashi\",\"Mayuko Kazama\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-21T04:54:32.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-21T04:54:32.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T07:36:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-21/haru-to-gen-~70-sai-hajimete-kosodate~-short-anime-teaser-reveals-cast-january-4-debut/.243050","title":"News\n'Haru to Gen ~70-sai, Hajimete Kosodate~' Short Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, January 4 Debut"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["Haru to Gen ~70-sai, Hajimete Kosodate~"],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Yuka Ōshima","Bin Shimada","Hiromi Igarashi","Mayuko Kazama"],"type":"announcement","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}