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Cultural Exchange with Game Center Girl
Japanese manga series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cultural Exchange with Game Center Girl (Japanese: ゲーセン少女と異文化交流, Hepburn: Gēsen Shōjo to Ibunka Kōryū) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirokazu Yasuhara. It originally began serialization online via Twitter and Pixiv in December 2019. It has been then serialized by Fujimi Shobo via the Niconico Seiga website under their DraDra Sharp brand since May 2020 and has been collected in ten tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by Nomad premiered in July 2025.
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Characters
- Lily Baker (リリー・ベイカー, Rirī Beikā)
- Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (vomic, PV),[2] Sally Amaki (anime)[3]
- A 13-year-old English girl who moves to Japan. As she has only recently arrived in Japan, she is still improving her Japanese. She enjoys playing at the arcade, although she is not good at video games. She likes koala goods.
- Renji Kusakabe (草壁 蓮司, Kusakabe Renji)
- Voiced by: Shōya Chiba (anime)[3]
- An 18-year-old university student who is working part-time at a game arcade center. He is skilled at playing video games.
- Aoi Kusakabe (草壁 葵衣, Kusakabe Aoi)
- Voiced by: Reo Osanai[4]
- Renji's younger sister and Lily's classmate. Although she was not originally interested in video games, she gains an interest in them after befriending Lily.
- Karin Kaga (加賀 花梨, Kaga Karin)
- Voiced by: Asaki Yuikawa[4]
- Hotaru Katsuragi (桂木 蛍, Katsuragi Hotaru)
- Voiced by: Kaori Ishihara[4]
- Momoko Mochizuki (望月 桃子, Mochizuki Momoko)
- Voiced by: Ai Kayano[4]
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Written and illustrated by Hirokazu Yasuhara, Cultural Exchange with Game Center Girl began serialization online via the author's Twitter and Pixiv accounts on December 22, 2019.[5][6] It was later acquired by Fujimi Shobo who began publishing it on the Niconico Seiga website under their DraDra Sharp brand on May 15, 2020.[7] The series' chapters have been collected into ten tankōbon volumes as of July 2025.[8]
Anime
An anime adaptation was announced on August 29, 2024.[18][19] It was later confirmed to be a television series produced by Nomad and directed by Toshihiro Kikuchi, with series composition handled by Yasunori Yamada, characters designed by Rikiya Okano, and music composed by Takurō Iga. The opening theme song is "Futari no Start Button" (Their Start Button) performed by Sally Amaki and Reo Osanai as their characters, while the ending theme song is "Amusing Flavor" performed by Amaki.[3] It premiered on July 6, 2025, on AT-X and other networks.[4] Crunchyroll will stream the series.[20]
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In commemoration of the release of the series' second volume, a promotional video was released on Kadokawa Corporation's YouTube channel on July 8, 2021. The promotional video featured the performance of Nao Tōyama as Lily.[2]
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