A To Your Eternity Lead and a Hypnosis Mic Rapper on the Mic
According to a report from Japanese anime news site Anime Anime, the voice PV (a short trailer in which voice actors perform the characters' lines) went live alongside the July 10 release of the manga's second and final volume, and it stars two actors international fans will recognize.
Reiji Kawashima (川島零士), who plays the immortal Fushi across all three seasons of To Your Eternity, voices Ryōsuke (涼介), the shut-in radio listener at the story's center. Opposite him, Ryōta Iwasaki (岩崎諒太) voices the comedian 羽村, whose name likely reads Hamura. Iwasaki's résumé sits close to this material. He plays Inasa Yoarashi in My Hero Academia and Sasara Nurude, the comedian-turned-rapper from the Osaka division of Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle-, so a professional comic is familiar territory for him.
A Comedian, a Shut-In, and a Stack of Radio Postcards
Ryōsuke is a shut-in NEET whose life revolves around one thing: writing postcards to Hamura's radio show under the pen name Narikin Takojirō (成金タコ次郎). Japanese radio has a whole culture around these die-hard joke writers. They are called hagaki shokunin, literally "postcard artisans," and getting a submission read on air is the whole game. The story kicks off when Hamura announces that his comedy duo is breaking up. How a professional funnyman and his most devoted anonymous listener end up in a romance is the manga's entire two-volume arc.
The title roughly translates to "Talk About Next Year, and I'll Laugh," and it reads as a spin on the Japanese proverb about demons laughing when you speak of next year.
The manga comes from writer 山内晶 (likely Akira Yamauchi) and artist Kingyobachi Deme (金魚鉢でめ). It ran from 2024 in Honey Milk, Kodansha's digital BL magazine, and the finished series totals just two volumes. There is a notable name behind the scenes, too: the project was planned and produced by AOI Pro., a Japanese video production company, and the series carries a joint Kodansha and AOI Pro. copyright. The PV came out of the same pipeline, with producers from AOI Pro. and MMDGP, sound direction by Yū Saitō, and sound production by Tatooine Sound.
Looking Ahead
Volume 2 is on sale in Japan as of July 10, 2026, and that is the ending: the series is complete at two volumes. No English-language edition has been announced, and the manga has no official English title, so readers outside Japan are limited to Japanese digital storefronts for now. As for the voice PV, the Anime Anime report doesn't link the video directly or say where it's hosted, so Honey Milk's official channels are the place to watch for it. No anime adaptation has been announced either.