Nabe ni Tama wo Ukenagara anime reveals cast, staff and January debut
Nabe ni Tama wo Ukenagara will premiere in Japan in January 2027, with Shū Uchida and Masaaki Mizunaka sharing the lead role at J.C.STAFF.
The television anime adaptation of Nabe ni Tama wo Ukenagara (鍋に弾丸を受けながら) will premiere in Japan in January 2027, with the official website confirming a teaser promotional video, a two-person lead cast and the principal production staff. The announcement does not give an exact day, an international release plan or a streaming service outside Japan. 1
Shū Uchida and Masaaki Mizunaka will share the role of Juntarō. Uchida voices the beautiful-girl version seen through Juntarō's imagination, while Mizunaka plays the character's real-world male form. That deliberately odd split reflects the premise: Juntarō travels through dangerous locations in search of strange, memorable food, while his viewpoint turns the people around him into beautiful girls. 1
The series is being directed by Masahiro Hiraoka at J.C.STAFF. Susumu Yamakawa is handling series composition and scripts, Natsuki Ōyama is designing the characters and serving as chief animation director, Yoshihide Otomo is composing the music, and Yoshikazu Iwanami is the sound director. 12
The official teaser presents the show as a chaotic gourmet travel story built around Juntarō's search for “50,000 points of deliciousness”. It also makes clear that the anime is based on the non-fiction gourmet-report manga by Juntarō Aoki and Shin Moriyama, which follows trips to dangerous places and the local dishes found there. 12
The official website lists Nippon TV, Yomiuri TV, BS Nippon TV and AT-X for the January broadcast window. It has not announced whether the anime will receive a same-day international simulcast, so overseas viewers will need to wait for regional platform details rather than assume a service from the Japanese broadcast listing. 1
The teaser is embedded below. It is an official upload from the Asmik Ace Anime Channel and provides the clearest early look at the show's visual identity and its deliberately surreal food-travel hook.
Our opinion
This is an unusually clear pitch for an anime: dangerous travel, serious food reporting and a protagonist whose imagination keeps colliding with reality. The two Juntarō performances are more than a casting curiosity because they turn the manga's central gag into part of the show's visual language. The January window is still broad, and the lack of overseas distribution news matters, but the teaser gives the adaptation a distinctive identity instead of selling it as another anonymous seasonal announcement.