Joseph Luster
May 25, 2025 
Two new pieces of media have been revealed for the ongoing Kowloon Generic Romance manga, which adapts the manga of the same name by Jun Mayuzuki. A new cast member has been released with an accompanying piece of character art, and there’s also a new trailer offering a look back at the story so far.
The new cast member is Soma Saito, who voices Xiahoei, pictured above next to the actor.
Here’s the trailer looking back at the first half of the adaptation:
The anime is being directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki (Love Hina), with Jin Tanaka (Oshi no Ko) on the script and Yuka Shibata on character designs for the Arvo Animation production.
The main cast consists of Haruka Shiraishi as Kowloon real estate agent Reiko Kujirai and Tomokazu Sugita as her colleague Hajime Kudo. New cast members include Ryotaro Okiayu as Miyuki Hebinuma, Taito Ban as Tao Gwen, Aoi Koga as Yaomay and Sayumi Suzushiro as Xiaohei. Crunchyroll streams the series.
Yen Press publishes the manga—which first launched in the pages of Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump magazine back in November 2019—in English and sums up the story like so:
Kowloon Generic Romance Plot
Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai―one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself…
Source: Official X (formerly Twitter)
