{"rewrite":{"id":"r_8afe947af052c4d448c23d5d","clusterId":"c_3e2e46b3a90fba5600feeeb6","slug":"nabe-ni-dangan-wo-ukenagara-anime-casts-two-actors-as-one-protagonist","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Nabe ni Dangan wo Ukenagara Anime Casts Two Actors as One Protagonist","summary":"A teaser PV for the TV anime Nabe ni Dangan wo Ukenagara arrived on Thursday, November 12, and with it a two-person cast for the lead. Shuu Uchida plays Juntaro as a beautiful girl, Masaaki Mizunaka plays him as a middle-aged man, because the protagonist sees every human as a beautiful girl. J.C.STAFF produces the series, which airs from January 2027 on Nippon TV, Yomiuri TV, BS Nippon TV, and AT-X.","whyItMatters":"The double cast is the adaptation's answer to the manga's central visual joke, and it puts the premise on screen rather than in a narrator's explanation.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe teaser PV arrived on Thursday, November 12, alongside the cast announcement. Masahiro Hiraoka directs at J.C.STAFF, with Susumu Yamakawa on series composition and screenplay, Natsuki Oyama on character design and chief animation direction, Yoshihide Otomo on music, and Yoshikazu Iwanami as sound director.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe source manga runs on KADOKAWA\u0026#39;s Comic Newtype, with Juntaro Aoki on the original story and Shin Moriyama on artwork. A spin-off, Nabe ni Dangan wo Ukenagara Transit, has been serialized since March 2026 with Hirota Takarahara as artist. 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