Kowloon Generic Romance Casts Soma Saito, Releases 1st Half Recap Trailer

Voice actor Soma Saito has been cast as the character Xiaohei for the ongoing Kowloon Generic Romance TV anime series. The anime first aired in Japan on April 5, 2025 and will run for 13 total episodes. 

Saito joins a main voice cast that includes: 

• • Haruka Shiraishi as Reiko Kujirai
• • Tomokazu Sugita as Hajime Kudou
• • Ryotaro Okiayu as Miyuki Hebinuma
• • Taito Ban as Tao Gwen
• • Aoi Koga as Yaomay
• • Sayumi Suzushiro as Xiaohei
• • Kengo Kawanishi as Yulong
• • Yuriko Yamaguchi as “Kujirai-B

A promotional recap trailer compiling various scenes from the anime’s first half was also released. 

Yoshiaki Iwasaki (Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers, The Familiar of Zero) is directing the anime, with Jin Tanaka (OSHI NO KO [co-scriptwriter in Season 2]) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, Yuka Shibata (Kimi ni Todoke – From Me To You [co-credit in Season 3], After the Rain) as character designer, and Yuji Kaneko (Tengoku-Daimakyo, Ranking of Kings) as background art director. ARVO ANIMATION is in charge of the animation production. 

The anime is based on the manga series by Jun Mayuzuki, which began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump on November 7, 2019 and has released 11 tankobon volumes as of April 2025. Yen Press releases the manga in English for North America. 

A live-action film adaptation of the manga will also debut later this coming August.

Crunchyroll is currently streaming Kowloon Generic Romance worldwide, outside of Japan, and describes the main synopsis as: 

Real estate agents Reiko Kujirai and Hajime Kudo work in the nostalgic Kowloon Walled City. As they spend more time together, Reiko’s feelings for Hajime grow. But when she finds a photo of him and his former fiancée, she’s shocked to see the woman looks exactly like her. Reiko then realizes a chilling truth: she has no memory of her past.

Source: Kowloon Generic Romance Official Twitter (2). Anime News Network