Ai Kakuma, Hiromi Igarashi, and others talk about their extreme views on anime! Ai Kakuma, Hiromi Igarashi and others talked about extreme topics!　Summer Anime "NTR" Preliminary Screening Report

The TV anime "NTR" (NTR: Naked Trap) will start in July 2017. Prior to its broadcast, an advance screening was held at TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku on Sunday, June 25, 2017. Based on the comic of the same title by Naoko Kodama, which is currently being serialized in the comic magazine "Comic Yurihime" (Ichijinsha), which specializes in romance between women, the story is a slightly extreme high school girl yuri story about two high school girls with boyfriends.

Yuma Okazaki, who has a boyfriend for the first time, asks her best friend Hotaru Mizushina, who also has a boyfriend, for advice on how to go out with him. However, Yuma is teased and kissed for being naive, and receives excessive skinship during a double date, and the inexperienced Yuma is at the mercy of Hotaru's techniques.

The two heroines have their own boyfriends: Takeda is a kind, pure-hearted boy for Yuma, and Fujiwara is a cool, good-looking guy for Hotaru, but as the word "NTR" (cuckoldry) is in the title, this work, despite its cute picture, is a sloppy love-hate drama that could easily be a daytime drama. The complex relationships between the characters and their hearts and minds are also shown in the film. The complicated relationships and emotions of the characters, especially the escalating behavior of Hotaru and Yuma who is about to fall into the forbidden act before she knows it, make this a film that one cannot take one's eyes off of.

Before and after the screening, a talk session was held with Ai Kuma (who plays Yuma), Hiromi Igarashi (who plays Hotaru), and Hirasawa Hisayoshi, the film's general director, and we are pleased to share with you what they had to say.

First, after the above three speakers greeted the audience before the screening, the moderator asked them, "What are the points you want us to pay attention to before the screening? The moderator asked, "What do you want people to pay attention to before the screening? There are a lot of women in the audience, but I want you to see the film with your eyes wide open" (Mr. Kakuma) and "Mr. Kakuma is right!　Let's talk about it later" (Mr. Igarashi), and "I dare you to pay attention to Takeda during karaoke at the beginning" (Director Hirasawa).

So, the first and second episodes were screened in succession. As everyone said, a slightly naughty scene between Yuma and Hotaru was shown in close-up from the beginning, and Takeda's tambourine pose, which Director Hirasawa had hinted at, was met with laughter. We hope you will watch the broadcast to find out more about this. Although the time frame for this work is short (10 minutes per episode), the content is condensed into a tight schedule, and there are many intriguing developments. After the two episodes were over in a blink of an eye, we moved on to the post-screening impressions talk.

Mr. Igarashi commented that since the second episode ended with another shocking scene involving Fujiwara, "I only have memories of Fujiwara. Mr. Kakuma commented, "It's embarrassing to see it with everyone else! he commented. Mr. Kakuma added, "The kiss scene on the balcony was very aggressive and amazing. When the director asked, "Do you want to make a close-up like this?" the audience commented, "Her teeth are so erotic," "I don't know if you can do that much in anime," and "She touches her thighs right away.

The next question was, "What memories do you have during recording? Kakuma responded, "It was the first time for me to work so closely with Igarashi-san in so many ways (laughs). But I couldn't ask him what to do about the kiss scene (laugh).　I can't ask him what he would do in a kissing scene (laugh)," he said. Mr. Igarashi said, "At first, Hotaru dared to act as if she was putting up a wall in front of Yuma or anyone else. We've just recorded nine episodes, and Hotaru is starting to speak her mind. In a way, I think she is more honest when she is in front of Fujiwara," he said about his character development.