Viz Media announced on Monday that the television anime adaptation of Keigo Shinzō‘s manga Hirayasumi — a co-production between Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions and Production +h. — will stream internationally on Netflix in January. The production team also revealed the same day that Gen Hoshino will perform the anime’s opening theme song.

Story

The series centers on Hiroto Ikuta, a carefree 29-year-old without a girlfriend, a full-time job, or any particular plan for the future — and he’s perfectly content with that. His laid-back outlook isn’t always easy for those around him to understand, but in a world full of anxiety and uncertainty, Hiroto and the people in his life are all simply doing their best to navigate what it means to be alive.

Things shift when Hiroto strikes up an unlikely friendship with the cantankerous old woman next door, only to find himself inheriting her house — and a tangle of complicated feelings along with it. His 18-year-old cousin Natsumi, a struggling art student, moves in with him, and her own troubles may well put Hiroto’s easygoing lifestyle to the test.

Cast

• Yūma Uchida as Hiroto Ikuta
• Mayu Takahashi as Natsumi Kobayashi
• Rikako Aikawa as Hanae Wada
• Daisuke Namikawa as Hideki Noguchi
• Yōko Hikasa as Yomogi Tachibana
• Yume Miyamoto as Akari Yokoyama
• Yūichirō Umehara as Ryō Ishikawa
• Yūko Naitō (Japanese television announcer) as Narrator

Staff

• Director: Kei Suezawa (Fate/Grand Order The Movie Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot – Wandering: Agateram, FLCL Progressive) at Production +h.
• Character Design: Naoyuki Asano (Urusei Yatsura 2022, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Mr. Osomatsu)
• Art Director: Mika Nishimura (Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, Typhoon Noruda)
• Music: Kaori Sawada (What Did You Eat Yesterday?, When Spring Comes)
• Opening Theme: Gen Hoshino
• Ending Theme: “Fūmizekka” (Delicious Flavor) by TOMOO

Premiere & Background

The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan on NHK General in January 2027. Viz Media and Japan Society hosted the world premiere screening of the first episode at Japan Society in New York City on October 7.

Shinzō launched the manga in Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine in April 2021. The 10th compiled volume was released on April 30, and the series has surpassed 1.1 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga will conclude on November 16, with Viz Media publishing the English edition. A live-action adaptation also aired on NHK beginning in November 2025.