Live-action Real Girl Film's New Teaser Video, Poster Visual Revealed

The official website for the live-action film adaptation of Mao Nanami's Real Girl (3D Kanojo) manga revealed a new teaser video and poster visual on Tuesday.



The film will open in Japan on September 14. Tsutomu Hanabusa is directing the film with some of the same staff as his previous directorial work Heroine Shikkaku.

Ayami Nakajō and Hayato Sano are starring as Iroha and Hikari Tsutsui, respectively.

Other cast members include:

• Hiroya Shimizu (live-action Chihayafuru) as Mitsuya Takanashi
  
• Yuri Tsunematsu (live-action Sakurada Reset) as Arisa Ishino
  
• Moka Kamishiraishi (live-action HaruChika) as Sumie Ayado
  
• Yūtarō as Yūto Itō

In addition, the film has cast Riki Takeuchi, Mari Hamada, and Towa Araki as Tsutsui's father, mother, and younger brother, respectively. Takahiro Miura will play Iroha's physician, who holds an important key to the story. Sayaka Kanda will voice the in-universe anime character Ezomichi.

Real Girl follows Hikari Tsutsui, a high school boy who is satisfied with the virtual girls he encounters in anime and games. He does not have many friends and he lives in his own world. One day, when he is stuck on pool cleaning duty, he is approached by Iroha, a "real girl" who is showy and popular with boys.

The romantic comedy manga ran in Kodansha's Dessert magazine from July 2011 to May 2016, and Kodanshapublished the series in 12 compiled volumes. The manga has 1.2 million copies in print. Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga digitally in English.

The manga is also inspiring an anime adaptation from director Takashi Naoya. The anime premiered earlier this month.