NHK announced on Friday that Bakushō Mondai comedian duo member Hikari Ōta will play J.A. Harrison in Anne Shirley, a new anime adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic Anne of Green Gables novel series.
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Japanese novelist and translator Hanako Muraoka translated the Anne of Green Gables novel to Japanese with the title Akage no Anne in 1952.
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NHK also announced that the “Chō Taiken NHK Fes 2025” event will host a talk show for the anime on March 9.
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J.A. Harrison is an eccentric older man who is not easily understood by those around him.