Trivia / When Will Ayumu Make His Move?

• Amateur Cast: Coupled with Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • With the exception of Ayumu and Maki, the voice actors for Urushi, Takeru, Sakurako, and Rin are all relatively new, with few major roles to their name.
  • However, most of the supporting cast is voiced by well-known and popular voice actors. "Manager", for example, is voiced by Masaki Terasoma, famous for voicing Big Bad characters in both anime and Tokusatsu, most notably Shadow Moon from Kamen Rider BLACK and its sequel series. Meanwhile, Urushi's parents are voiced by Fumihiko Tachiki and Sayaka Ohara, a.k.a. Gendo Ikari and Erza Scarlet, respectively.
• Playing with Character Type: Fumihiko Tachiki, who's known for voicing scary and/or evil father figures such as the aforementioned Gendo Ikari, voices Urushi's father, who turns out to be more of an Amazingly Embarrassing Parent than he is actually scary.
• Portmanteau Series Nickname: "SoreAyu", which is also its Officially Shortened Title.
• Star-Making Role: For voice actor Kanna Nakamura, as her role as Urushi was her first major role since the start of her career in 2018.
• Technical Advisor: The shogi game records featured at the end of some of the chapters were written by Madoka Kitao, a professional Japanese women's Shōgi player, who helped as an editorial consultant for the manga.
• The Other Darrin: In three instances of it for both Ayumu and Urushi. In the 2019 commercial, they were respectively voiced by Hiroki Yasumoto and Yuka Iguchi. Later for the 2021 commercial, they were replaced by Yoshimasa Hosoya and Konomi Kohara. Finally, for the anime proper, they settled on Yohei Azakami and Kanna Nakamura.

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