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Hirayasumi anime heads to Netflix worldwide in January 2027

VIZ Media has confirmed that the television anime of Keigo Shinzō’s award-winning manga Hirayasumi will stream internationally on Netflix in January 2027, alongside its Japanese debut on NHK General TV. The announcement also named the theme songs: Gen Hoshino performs the opening, while TOMOO contributes the ending, “Fūmizekka”. Yūma Uchida leads the cast as carefree 29-year-old Hiroto Ikuta, with Mayu Takahashi as his cousin Natsumi and Rikako Aikawa as their neighbour Hanae. Kei Suezawa directs at Production +h., the studio behind The Orbital Children. The manga, a gentle human drama about Hiroto inheriting his elderly neighbour’s house, has run in Weekly Big Comic Spirits since 2021 and is set to end on 16 November. No exact premiere date has been announced yet.

Sources: Anime News Network — Hirayasumi TV Anime to Stream on Netflix, 8 Nov · VIZ — A First Look at the Hirayasumi Anime, Nov 2026

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