Kaoru’s friend drummer Sentaro Kawabuchi is played by 18-year-old Taishi Nakagawa (Arata Kaizaki in ReLIFE) and Kaoru’s love interest and Sentaro’s childhood friend Ritsuko Mukae is portrayed by 21-year-old Nana Komatsu (Yukako Yamagishi in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable).
series animated by MAPPA and Tezuka Production that aired in Japan from April to June 2012.
For this role, Chinen started taking piano lessons in September 2016.