Main Cast Announced for Wotakoi Live-Action Film, Slated for September 2020 Premiere

Can’t get enough of our favorite otaku office workers? Fret not, as we’ll get to see them next on the big screen! Fujita’s Wotakoi (Wotaku ni Koi Wa Muzukashii or Love is Hard for Otaku) is set to make the jump to the live-action big screen on September 7, 2020. The film was originally set for a 2019 premiere but was pushed back a for a year.

Casts for the main protagonists Momose Narumi and Hirotaka Nifuji were announced earlier. Mitsuki Takahata will be playing the lovable fujoshi, with Kento Yamazaki (yes, he is EVERYWHERE) as her game otaku boyfriend. This Monday, the cast for the secondary (tsundere) leads were announced: Nanao will be playing Kabakura Tarou, and Takumi Saitou will be Hanako Koyanagi.

A new visual was also released for the film, which features the four main cast posed in the same way as their characters in the first volumes of the manga:

Yuichi Fukuda, who directed the live-action Gintama film, is directing the film.

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii started as a Japanese webmanga series on Pixiv, written and illustrated by Fujita. Main character Momose Narumi is a hardcore fujoshi who tries her best to keep this side of her a secret from everyone, especially at work. When she starts dating her childhood friend and gaming otaku Hirotaka Nifuji, both of them navigate through the ups and downs of having a romantic relationship with a fellow otaku. Secondary couple Kabakura, a huge shoujo fan, and Hanako, a famous cosplayer, also find ways to deal with each other’s fiery personalities, with Hanako always taking advantage of Kabakura’s secret obsession with shoujo manga to always get her way with him.

A-1 Pictures also adapted Wotakoi as an 11-episode animé series, which aired from April to June 2018.

Source: Anime News Network