The film stars Sally Amaki and Shōya Chiba in July 2025.
Kodoani.com – Kadokawa has released an introductory video for Cultural Exchange With a Game Centre Girl (Game Center Shо̄jo to Ibunka Kо̄ryū), an anime adaptation of the manga of the same name by Hirokazu Yasuhara.
Detailed information about the anime
Broadcast date: July 2025
Main actor:
Sally Amaki vai Lily BakerShoya Chiba Vai Renji Kusakabe
Production studio: Nomad
Director: Toshihiro Kikuchi (Bungo Stray Dogs Wan!, Pseudo Harem)
Screenwriter: Yasunori Yamada (Elegant Yokai Apartment Life, Web Ghost PiPoPa)
Character design: Rikiya Okano (Alice Gear Aegis Expansion, Tokyo Autumn Session)
Production team
Art director: Isamu Nishiyama (I’m Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!?)
Artistic setting: Kenta Masuda (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II)
Color design: Yukiko Shigemitsu (sola)
Edit: Mutsumi Takemiya (Pseudo Harem, The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie)
Sound: Sound director: Yasunori Ebina (Date A Live, Naruto) Sound effects: Kiyotaka Kawada (Oshi no Ko) Recording master: Shunpei Takeuchi (Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time) Composer: Takurō Iga (Trillion Game, Oshi no Ko)
Content summary
The story revolves around Renji Kusakabe, a part-time employee at a video game store, and Lily Baker, an English girl who often visits the store. They exchange diaries, share thoughts about culture and life, thereby developing a friendship, or perhaps a romantic relationship.
Information about manga
Author: Hirokazu YasuharaThe manga first debuted on X/Twitter in 2019 before being officially published on Kadokawa's Dra Dra Sharp# site in 2020. Published by Kadokawa ninth episode on December 9.
The manga attracted early attention, with a promotional video for the second volume released in July 2021, in which Lily was voiced by Nao Tōyama.
With a warm plot and the presence of an experienced staff, this anime promises to be one of the outstanding works of summer 2025.
