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Ren Arisugawa Is Actually a Girl
A Popular male celebrity... is actually a girl?!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yuki Nishiyama
Kyohei Arisugawa (voice)
8 eps
Amai Miruku
Ren Arisugawa (voice)
8 eps
Natsue Sasamoto
Satsuki Yoshioka (voice)
8 eps
Noel Kanzaki
Momoka Hiiragi (voice)
8 eps
Miho Hayashi
Haruna Miyashita (voice)
8 eps
Konbu Ariake
Hina Sugisaki (voice)
8 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Ren Arisugawa Is Actually a Girl actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Ren Arisugawa Is Actually a Girl reads strongest on Humour, Character Depth and Serialized.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Kyohei’s only brush with fame is being the cousin of Japan’s hottest male celebrity, Ren Arisugawa. They haven’t spoken in years until Ren suddenly shows up at Kyohei’s rundown apartment out of the blue! But when Kyohei accidentally discovers Ren’s biggest secret… everything changes.
Ren may be the picture of cool confidence on stage, but off-camera, "he" is actually a she and surprisingly adorable?!
Recently aired
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The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- 後藤礼雅Producer
Cinematography
- Soichiro ArimaDirector of Photography
Music
- でか大Original Music Composer
Where to watch
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