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The Shadows of Who We Once Were Live-Action Show Reveals 10 Additional Cast Members
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The staff for the live-action series adaptation of Yae Utsumi's The Shadows of Who We Once Were (Nare no Hate no Bokura) manga revealed on Tuesday the cast members for the former Grade 6 Class 2 students, who were involved in the 52-hour confinement incident in Yonotsuka Elementary School.
The cast includes (pictured above from left to right, starting with top row)
- 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
Previously announced cast includes Atsuhiro Inukai (live-action Kimi ni Todoke) as Miko Yumesaki, and HiHi Jets idol group member Mizuki Inoue (live-action Tomodachi Game) as Tōru "Nezu" Sanada.
The series will premiere on TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, TVQ Broadcasting Kyushu on June 27.
Hideo Jōjō, Keisuke Shibata, and Masayuki matoba are directing the series, with scripts by Hideo Jōjō, Moral, Ai Suzuki, and Yūta Kurachi.
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.
Utsumi launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in January 2020. The manga moved to the Magazine Pocket app in November 2020. The manga ended in July 2021. Kodansha published the manga's eighth compiled book volume in August 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing released the manga's eighth volume on January 10.
Utsumi serialized the Until Your Bones Rot (Hone ga Kusaru Made) manga on the Manga Box app from 2016 to 2018. Kodansha published seven volumes of the manga. Kodansha USA Publishing published the manga in English digitally, and it released the seventh volume in July 2018.
Sources: The Shadows of Who We Once Were live-action series' Twitter account, Comic Natalie
