Hirayasumi, the TV anime of Keigo Shinzō’s manga, will stream on Netflix internationally in January 2027. VIZ Media announced it on November 9. In Japan, it premieres the same month on NHK General.
The story
Hiroto Ikuta is 29, with no girlfriend, no full-time job and no real plan. He befriends the grouchy old woman in his neighborhood, and ends up inheriting her house, along with some complicated feelings. Then his 18-year-old cousin Natsumi, a struggling art student, moves in with him. VIZ describes it as a human drama about people “just doing their best to figure out this thing called life.”
Music, cast and staff
- Opening theme: Gen Hoshino
- Ending theme: “Fūmizekka” by TOMOO
- Cast: Yūma Uchida as Hiroto and Mayu Takahashi as Natsumi, with Yōko Hikasa, Daisuke Namikawa, Yūichirō Umehara, Rikako Aikawa and Yume Miyamoto. TV announcer Yūko Naitō narrates.
- Studio: Production +h, with Kei Suezawa directing and Naoyuki Asano designing the characters
The first episode already had its world premiere at Japan Society in New York on October 7.
The manga
Hirayasumi has run in Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits since April 2021 and has more than 1.1 million copies in circulation. It ends on November 16, so the anime arrives just after the story finishes. VIZ Media publishes it in English, and there was a live-action series on NHK in November 2025.
If you like quiet, grown-up slice of life, put this on your list for January.