Rie Kugimiya will play Kotaro Satо̄, and Toshiki Masuda will play Shin Karino.
The “apartment comedy with laughs and tears” centers on a 4-year-old boy named Kotarō Satо̄, who moves next door to Shin Karino, an unsuccessful manga artist.
The manga inspired a live-action series that debuted on April 24.
Not only does he seem to earn a living, he actually seems more put together than his own strange neighbors.