Anime Cultural Exchange With a Game Center Girl Airs July

The latest anime adaptation of Hirokazu Yasuhara's manga is set to arrive in Summer 2025. Cultural Exchange With a Game Center Girl will begin airing on July 6 and brings the story of the friendship of two teenagers from different cultural backgrounds, set in an unusual place: a game center.

Story and Trailer

Cultural Exchange With a Game Center Girl tells the story of Renji Kusakabe, a Japanese teenager who works part-time at a game center. One day, he meets Lily Baker, a British girl who has just moved to Japan. The two begin to communicate through the habit of exchanging diaries, which slowly forms a personal relationship between them.

The main promotional video released by Kadokawa features character interactions in a simple game center setting. The opening song titled Futari no Start Button also plays in the video and gives an initial idea of the anime's tone.

Inside story Cultural Exchange With a Game Center Girl is about the daily lives of two teenagers from different cultural backgrounds. The approach is quite light, but still highlights the dynamics of cross-cultural communication and adaptation in everyday life.

Production Staff

This anime was produced by Nomad and involves a number of familiar names in the anime world. Here is the production team and the main voice actors:

Staff

• Director: Toshihiro Kikuchi (Bungo Stray Dogs Wan!, Pseudo Harem)
• Series Composition: Yasunori Yamada (Elegant Yokai Apartment Life)
• Character Design: Rikiya Okano (alice gear aegis Expansion)
• Art Director: Isamu Nishiyama (I'm Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!?)
• Art Setting: Kenta Masuda (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II)
• Color Design: Yukiko Shigemitsu (sola)
• Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya (The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie)
• Sound Director: Yasunori Ebina (Date A Live, Naruto)
• Sound Effects: Kiyotaka Kawada (Oshi no Ko)
• Recording Adjustment: Shunpei Takeuchi (Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time)
• Sound Production: zuvo.
• Casting Director: Wataru Matsuoka
• Music Composer: Takurō Iga (Trillion Game, Oshi no Ko)

Cast

• Sally Amaki as Lily Baker
• Shōya Chiba as Renji Kusakabe
• Reo Osanai as Aoi Kusakabe
• Kaori Ishihara as Hotaru Katsuragi
• Asaki Yuikawa as Karin Kaga
• Ai Kayano as Momoko Mochizuki

Opening song Futari no Start Button is performed by Sally Amaki and Reo Osanai in character version, while the closing song Amusing Flavor sung by Sally Amaki solo.

About Cultural Exchange With a Game Center Girl

Manga Game Center Shо̄jo to Ibunka Kо̄ryū is an original work by Hirokazu Yasuhara that was first introduced through the X platform (formerly Twitter) in 2019. Due to the positive response, the manga was then serialized on the website Dra Dra Sharp# owned by Kadokawa starting in 2020.

As of December 2023, the manga has been published in nine compilation volumes. Previously, the manga also received a promotional video for its second volume in 2021, featuring Nao Tōyama as the voice of Lily.

Anime adaptation Cultural Exchange With a Game Center Girl is a continuation of the development of this work into new media. With a simple story that focuses on cultural interactions and differences, and a rarely used game center setting, this anime offers an interesting approach for viewers who enjoy the character-focused slice of life genre.

If you're looking for something light-hearted and atmospheric, then Cultural Exchange With a Game Center Girl deserves to be on your watch list for this Summer.

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