VIVANT's Ryu Kohata Joins Aibou season25 After Li Exit
Kohata's VIVANT exit came fast enough that a same-week Aibou turn reads as a quick re-entry for a character actor whose bowl-cut villain role had just made him recognizable.
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Ryu Kohata, who played Shin-Shin operative Li Mingze in VIVANT's second season, will appear in TV Asahi's Aibou season25. Kohata posted on X and Instagram on Tuesday the 20th that he appears a little in the next day's broadcast, with a photo of the script. The role is undisclosed. Li died in VIVANT episode 21 after a car explosion and gunfire from Nogi's alternate personality F.
The Aibou announcement arrived one day after Kohata's post and two days after his VIVANT exit. On Lavitt! on Monday the 19th, the day after Li died on screen, Kohata did roughly one hour and fifty minutes of promotion alone because his co-star Rinrin was late, and the two ended up sharing the punishment game's electric chair. Kohata also said on the program that cutting his hair into Li's blunt-bangs bowl cut cost him other jobs. Fan replies to his post split between expecting another operative role and asking to see him play someone who is neither a villain nor a foreigner. Aibou season25 opens with an expanded first-episode special at 21:00 on the 21st.
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