The production team behind the live-action series adaptation of Hiura's Saionji-san wa Kaji o Shinai (No Housework for Miss Saionji) manga announced additional cast members on Wednesday.
Image via Saionji-san live-action Twitter account
The newly announced cast members are (from left to right in the image above):
The series will premiere in July and will air on TBS's Tuesday drama block at 10:00 p.m. JST (9:00 a.m. EDT).
Wakana Matsumoto plays the main role of Itsuki Saionji, a 38-year-old woman who works at an application development company and does no housework. Hokuto Matsumura of idol group SixTONES plays Toshinao Kusumi, a 29-year-old engineer and single father. Ema Kurata plays Ruka Kusumi, Toshinao's daughter.
Kentaro Takemura, Taichi Imura, Takeyoshi Yamamoto and Atsushi Watanabe will direct the film. Takeshi Miyamoto and Subaru Yamashita are writing the script. Aina Iwasaki and Izumi Maruyama are producing the film.
Other cast members include:
Takashi Fujii as Ryuuji Amano, Les Q president Mari Hamada as Chisako Satou, Les Q formula creator Mayū Yokota as Emiri Takeda, Assistant Product Manager Shingo Mizusawa as Hiromi Umematsu, engineer Nuno Uraji as Aki Kozuki, designer Takehiro Otsuki as Junta Mizuno, another designer at the company and Kozuki's junior
© Satoru Hiura, Kodansha
The manga's story revolves around Itsuki Saionji, an office worker who is very good at her job but doesn't do any housework until one day she brings home a young genius engineer.
Hiura launched the manga in Kodansha's Be Love magazine in September 2021. Kodansha published the manga's first compiled book volume in June 2022 and the fourth volume on November 13. Hiura will end the series on May 31.
Hiura's Hotaru's Way (Hotaru no Hikari-It's Only Little) Light in My Life) was serialized in Kiss magazine from 2004 to 2009 and includes a total of 15 collected volumes.
Hiura launched a sequel manga Hotaru no Hikari SP in January 2014 and ended it in May 2017. Hiura launched another sequel manga titled Hotaru no Hikari BABY in October 2017 and ended it in May 2017. ends April 2021. The manga's sixth and final volume was published in July 2021.
The original Hotaru's Way manga inspired two live-action television series as well as a live-action film released in 2012. Kodansha USA published the original manga in English under the title Hotaru's Way.
Source: Live-action X/Twitter series Saionji-san account, Natalie Comics