#Given Anime Gets New OVA, Live-Action Series

The official website for the anime adaptation Natsuki Kizu’s Given manga announced that the series will receive a new OVA titled Given: Uragawa no Sonzai (Given: The One on the Flip-Side), as well as a live-action adaptation. The OVA will follow the two characters Mafuyu and Ritsuka during events of the Given film. The OVA will ship alongside a limited edition of the manga’s seventh volume on December 1.

Meanwhile, the six-episode live-action series is set to premiere in Japan on July 17. The cast includes Jin Suzuki as Ritsuka Uenoyama, singer Sanari as Mafuyu Satō, Kai Inowaki as Akihiko Kaji, and Shuntarō Yanagi as Haruki Nakayama.

The Given TV anime premiered in July 2019, and the film premiered in August 2020. Crunchyroll streamed both the film and the series and describes the story as:

Somehow, the guitar that he used to love to play and the basketball games that he found so fun just lost their appeal…

That was until Ritsuka Uenoyama randomly met Mafuyu Sato. Ritsuka had started losing his passion for music in his everyday life, but then he hears Mafuyu sing for the first time. The song resonates with his heart and the distance between them starts to change.

Source: Given website