Director
Screenwriter
Main Role
- Hashimoto AiNezu TorakoMain Role
Support Role
- Nakamura AoiFukuda FukutaSupport Role
- Mimura RieNakamura MakiSupport Role
- Suzuki HonamiUehara SatomiSupport Role
- Itaya YukaShimoyama TomoyoSupport Role
- Nagase YuzunaNakamura ChieSupport Role
- Hosoda KanataUehara MamoruSupport Role
- Akutsu KeitoShimoyama TakashiSupport Role
- Hosoda YoshihikoNakamura SakutaroSupport Role
- Yajima KenichiUehara ToshiakiSupport Role
- Shio KenjiUehara KenichiSupport Role
- Nagami ReaUehara TsubakiSupport Role
Guest Role
- Maruyama TomomiShimoyama Mitsuo [Takashi's father] (Ep. 1-2, 5)Guest Role
- Yanagiya YukaShimoyama Junko [Takashi's grandmother] (Ep. 2, 5)Guest Role
- Mizuno Tomonori[Takashi's homeroom teacher] (Ep. 2) | [Lottery counter clerk] (Ep. 5) | [Cram School Manager] (Ep. 7) | [Kozo's son] (Ep. 9) | [Wedding chapel staff] (Ep. 10)Guest Role
- Takaya Tomoko["Seikai no Mori" manager] (Ep. 6)Guest Role
- Wada Sanshiro[Yakuza] (Ep. 6-7)Guest Role
- Sakata Masanobu[Fukuta's boss] (Ep. 7)Guest Role
- Harumoto Hiro[Torako's student] (Ep. 7)Guest Role
- Iwata Ryusei[Torako's student] (Ep. 7)Guest Role
- Wada Hitomi[Hostess] (Ep. 7)Guest Role
- Nakayama Takeshi[Cram school security guard] (Ep. 7)Guest Role
- Sunami NorikoFukuda Sachiko [Fukuta's foster mother] (Ep. 7-8)Guest Role
- Matsunaga Yuriko[Torako's tutor service applicant] (Ep. 8)Guest Role
- Asano Anna[Kenichi's dating partner] (Ep. 8)Guest Role
- Nishioka TokumaNojima Kozo [Torako's fiancée] (Ep. 9)Guest Role
- Kataoka ReikoNezu Kanae [Torako's mother] (Ep. 9)Guest Role
- Nakazawa MikoHina [Nurse] (Ep. 9)Guest Role
- Yasuda Kana[Kozo's daughter] (Ep. 9)Guest Role
- Katayama YukiOkubo Hinako [Fukuta's matchmaking partner] (Ep. 9-10)Guest Role
- Nakao Yurine[Mamoru's date] (Ep. 10)Guest Role
- Fujiyama Rin(Ep. 4-5, 7)Guest Role
- Kamata ErenaNezu Torako [Young] (Ep. 7)Guest Role
- Matsufuji Shion(Ep. 2)Guest Role
- Kobayashi Toranosuke(Ep. 2)Guest Role
- Asami Kazuya(Ep. 2)Guest Role
- Nakano Motoko[ Elderly woman in the hospital ] (Ep.4)Guest Role
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