Why Kazuya From Rent-A-Girlfriend Sounds So Familiar
By Christopher Ramos
Next up for Horie was the romantic drama "Sing 'Yesterday' For Me," based on the manga series by Kei Toume. In the anime, a young man named Rikuo Uozumi is living a boring existence working at a grocery store after graduating. At this point, Rikuo has generally accepted that this is the way his life is going to be — monotonous and slow. That is, until he meets a girl named Haru Nonaka who often visits the store.
Haru also has been living a rather simple life, made worse after she is expelled from high school. She clearly has feelings for Rikuo, although he doesn't seem to notice, and together they attempt to make their lives a little better and brighter. This is made more complicated when Rikuo's old love, Shinako Morinome, returns to his life again, and she ends up being the teacher involved with Haru's expulsion.
In "Sing 'Yesterday' For Me," Horie's character is a bit on the outskirts of the main story. He voices the character Katsumi Takishita, who is a school friend of a supporting character named Rou Hayakawa, who is an old childhood friend of Shinako's. The anime has an extensive cast of characters introduced through connections with the main cast, and Katsumi is a part of that web of relationships. Katsumi is an artist and someone Rou looks up to and gets advice from.
