#Miyu Tomita Voices Magical Plasterer Girl in Special Anime within Live-action Film Kodomo wa Wakatte Agenai

From the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Rettou Tajima’s Kodomo wa Wakatte Agenai (Kids won’t understand) manga, a short clip to introduce its anime-within- the story, Magical Sakan (Plasterer) Girl Buffalo KOTEKO, is now streamed. “Kote” means a trowel for a plasterer in Japanese.

Buffalo KOTEKO is the favorite anime series of the film’s protagonist Minami Sakuta (Moka Kamishiraishi), an anime otaku, and her fellow anime otaku, Shohei Moji / Moji-kun (Kanata Hosoda). In the film’s story, the anime becomes an important trigger to bring them closer together.

This clip is a special version that includes scenes that are not used in the actual film, as well as the ED theme song “Sakan no Kokoro de” (With a plasterer’s heart) sung by Miyu Tomita, who voices the title character KOTEKO. In addition, Daisuke Namikawa plays the Count of Cement, Takahiro Sakurai plays Mortar, Tatsuhisa Suzuki plays Concre Taro, and Sho Hayami plays Shotoku Taishi-sama. Katsuya Kikuchi (The Royal Tutor) serves as the director of the anime part, alongside the anime character designer Reina Okuyama (The Royal Tutor), and Typhoon Graphics (Digimon Adventure tri.) works on animeproduction.

The live-action film Kodomo wa Wakatte Agenai will be released in Japan on August 20, 2021.

Source: “Kodomo wa Wakatte Agenai” official website / Twitter

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