Getting Shots on a Frying Pan Gives Its Hero Two Voices. Shu Uchida Plays the Girl Everyone Sees, Masaaki Mizunaka the Man He Really Is

The anime of Getting Shots on a Frying Pan, a gourmet travel manga about a real man who sees everyone as a pretty girl, has cast its hero twice. Shu Uchida voices the girl the audience sees, Masaaki Mizunaka voices the man he actually is, and you can hear both of them in the first teaser, released on 12 November. The show starts on Japanese TV in January 2027.

The news went out on the official website of the TV anime, known in Japan as Nabe ni Dangan wo Ukenagara and shortened by everyone to Nabetama. Along with the teaser came the broadcast window, January 2027 on Nippon TV, Yomiuri TV, BS Nippon TV and AT-X, and the casting that has anime fans talking: one lead character, two voice actors.

The character is Juntaro, and the joke is in how he sees the world. According to his official profile, years of consuming far too much 2D content have broken his brain, so every human being looks like a beautiful girl to him. That includes himself. On the page and on screen, the hero is drawn as a girl with long dark hair and a suitcase. In real life, he’s a man.

The anime’s answer is to split the voice down that line. The official announcement says Uchida plays “Bishojo Juntaro,” the version filtered through Juntaro’s eyes, and Mizunaka plays “Ojisan Juntaro,” the real middle-aged man. The producers call it unusual casting and sum it up in four characters, 二人一役: two actors, one role.

Hear the voices: Masaaki Mizunaka’s narration opens the 44-second teaser, and Shu Uchida’s girl Juntaro joins him before it’s over. Video: Asmik Ace Anime Channel, on YouTube

Who’s behind the two Juntaros

Uchida is with the agency Just Pro. She was born in Japan in 1996 and, according to her Wikipedia entry, grew up in Sydney from the age of two. Anime fans know her as Mia Taylor in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club and as Jill Cervel in The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor.

Mizunaka is with Production Baobab and comes from Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture. His best-known parts include Diablo in How Not to Summon a Demon Lord and Shalle Fen Shalle in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale.

Shu Uchida, left, voices Juntaro as the girl everyone sees, and Masaaki Mizunaka, right, voices the real man. Photos: Nabetama TV anime official website. Composite image: Voice Over Herald

Both sent comments to the official site. Uchida sounds like she’s already packed. “It’s irresistible for anyone who loves travel and food!!” she says. “It’s wildly funny, and I just keep reading (and my mouth starts watering, too…!).” She can hardly believe a manga like this is getting an anime at all. “I can’t wait!!” she says, adding that she hopes the charm of wonderful places and delicious food from around the world reaches even more people through the series.

Then she signs off in English, which nobody else on the page does: “Adventure awaits, and so does delicious food!”

A real man, and a real menu

Mizunaka’s comment explains the twist that makes the casting more than a gag. “Juntaro, who is both the original author and the protagonist, gets to know pretty girls (who are really middle-aged men) through hobbies like fishing,” he says, “and the story is told as he experiences all kinds of fascinating food.”

That’s right: Juntaro is a real person. The manga is written by Juntaro Aoki and drawn by Shin Moriyama, and it has run in Kadokawa’s Comic Newtype since May 2021. Its own logo carries the English title Getting Shots on a Frying Pan, and its marketing calls it a nonfiction, chaotic, hard gourmet report. Juntaro travels to rough corners of the world’s cities looking for what he calls “50,000 points of deliciousness,” the strange, tempting local dishes that never make it into a travel guide. And because of his filter, his fishing buddies show up as pretty girls too.

Mizunaka promises to give it everything. He calls the series “exciting and heartwarming,” a story that lets viewers “experience a world you don’t know,” and says he’ll do his very best “so that everyone can enjoy it!!”

Anime Corner reported the anime announcement in June, with J.C.STAFF animating. Five volumes of the manga are out in Japan. This week’s teaser is the first time anyone has heard the hero.

According to the official site, it opens with Juntaro’s own narration and his whole philosophy in one line: the more dangerous the place, the tastier the food. From there, the site says, Juntaro runs into one suspicious but tempting dish after another, and plenty of things nobody could have predicted. That’s what happens when you plan your trips around danger for dinner.

Why one voice wouldn’t do the job

Most of the time an anime character’s look and voice are one thing. Here the comedy lives in the gap between them. Viewers see a cute girl biting into grilled meat, and the voice they hear can either play along with that picture or pull the rug out from under it. With two actors, the show can do both, and each actor gets to play their half straight.

Key art for the TV anime of Getting Shots on a Frying Pan, which starts in January 2027. Image: Asmik Ace / Nabetama production committee

There’s history behind the idea. When Ranma ½ was first adapted in 1989, its creator Rumiko Takahashi “insisted that male and female Ranma be voiced by different actors whose gender corresponded to that of the part,” as the series’ Wikipedia entry records. Megumi Hayashibara played female Ranma then, and she did it again in the 2024 remake. Nabetama flips the trick around: its hero never actually changes. Only the way he sees himself does.

For voice actors, that kind of split is a real craft challenge. Two people share one character’s thoughts, jokes and reactions, so the hand-offs between them have to feel like one mind. Much of that will rest on sound director Yoshikazu Iwanami, whose credits include the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure series, and on how the two performances are cast against each other in the booth.

The crew, and when to tune in

The staff list is strong for a show this odd. Masahiro Hiraoka, who directed Magilumiere Co. Ltd., directs. Susumu Yamakawa, the writer behind Way of the Househusband and Murai in Love, handles series composition and scripts. Natsuki Oyama designs the characters and is chief animation director. The music comes from Yoshihide Otomo, whose film work includes Inu-Oh and Lupin Zero.

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The series premieres in January 2027 on Nippon TV, Yomiuri TV, BS Nippon TV and AT-X. No streaming partner outside Japan and no English dub have been announced so far. If a dub does happen, its casting director will face the same question Japan just answered: do you give Juntaro one voice, or two?

To mark the teaser, the anime’s account on X is giving away ten original stickers to people in Japan who follow it and repost the campaign post before 19 November. Everyone else can settle for the teaser, and probably a snack.

Sources: Nabetama TV anime official website (announcement, cast comments, character profile, staff), 12 November 2026; Asmik Ace Anime Channel on YouTube (teaser); Anime News Network and MangaUpdates (manga details); Anime Corner (anime announcement, June 2026); Wikipedia (Shu Uchida, Masaaki Mizunaka, Megumi Hayashibara, Ranma ½). Quotations from the Japanese website are translated by Voice Over Herald, except Shu Uchida’s closing line, which she wrote in English. Images: Asmik Ace / Nabetama production committee.

Lee este artículo en español: Getting Shots on a Frying Pan le da dos voces a su protagonista. Shu Uchida es la chica que todos ven, Masaaki Mizunaka el hombre que en realidad es

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