Back Street Girls: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

A group of 3 yakuza failed their boss for the last time. After messing up an important job, the boss gave them 2 choices: honorably commit suicide, or go to Thailand to get a sex reassignment surgery in order to become "female" idols. After a gruesome year training to become idols, they successfully debut, with overwhelming popularity, much to their dismay. This is where their tragedy truly begins.

Series details

• Title: Back Street Girls
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Comedy, Anime
• Premiere date: 2018-07-03
• Final broadcast date listed: 2018-09-04
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BS11
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 36932
• IMDb ID: tt8693818
• TVDB ID: 347160

Cast and credited roles

• Yuka Nukui — Airi Yamamoto
• Daisuke Ono — Kentaro Yamamoto
• Kaori Maeda — Mari Tachibana
• Satoshi Hino — Ryo Tachibana
• Hikaru Akao — Chika Sugihara
• Kazuyuki Okitsu — Kazuhiko Sugihara
• Minami Takahashi — Lina
• Shinji Kawada — George
• Keiji Fujiwara — Kimanjiro Inugane
• Junichi Suwabe — Mandarin Kinoshita
• Yasuhiro Mamiya — Kōji Nagata
• Natsuki Hanae — Kimura

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2018-07-03; final listed air date 2018-09-04; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Back Street Girls on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.