{"id":118113,"date":"2025-09-04T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118113\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:41:08","slug":"live-action-wakako-zake-season-9-unveils-more-cast-opening-song-artist-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118113\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-Action Wakako-zake Season 9 Unveils More Cast, Opening Song Artist – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official website for the live-action series based on Chie Shinky\u016b<\/a>‘s Wakako-zake<\/a> manga unveiled a new visual, more cast members, and the opening theme song for the series’ ninth<\/a> season on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\"wakakozake_season9\"Image via Wakakozake live-action series’ X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 \u65b0\u4e45\u5343\u6620\uff0f\u30b3\u30a2\u30df\u30c3\u30af\u30b9 \u00a92025\u300c\u30ef\u30ab\u30b3\u91528\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n

The additional cast members include Kanji Tsuda<\/a>, Sports Makita<\/a>, Takeo Gozu<\/a>, and Sujitar\u014d Tamabukuro.<\/p>\n

Riria.<\/a> performs the ninth season’s opening theme song “3% to Watashi” (3% and Me). <\/p>\n

The series will premiere on BS TV Tokyo<\/a> and BS TV Tokyo 4K on October 1 at 24:00 (effectively October 2 at 12:00 a.m.). The show will stream on the Lemino<\/a> Premium, Net mo Telet\u014d, and TVer<\/a> services.<\/p>\n

Rina Takeda<\/a> will again star in the series. Also starring in the season are Kinuo Yamada, Kenta Kamakari<\/a>, Wataru Monma, Mizuki Watanabe<\/a>, Takayuki Sakoi, Shinya Hasegawa<\/a>, K\u014dhei Shiotsuka, and Yoshihiro Nozoe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shinji Kuma, Sh\u014dhei Wakabayashi, and Tar\u014d Kubota return from the previous season as directors. Scriptwriters include Kumiko As\u014d<\/a>, Momoka Meriyama, Shinji Kuma, and Sh\u014dhei Wakabayashi. <\/p>\n

The Wakako-zake cuisine manga follows 26-year old Wakako, who drinks different kinds of alcoholic beverages at bars and restaurants alone every night, searching for her place to belong. In the new television season, Wakako travels to Hokkaido and Fukushima in northern Japan.<\/p>\n

Shinky\u016b started the manga in Coamix<\/a>‘s Monthly Comic Zenon<\/a> magazine in 2011. Media Do<\/a> released<\/a> the first volume of the manga digitally in English on several platforms in October 2018. The manga inspired<\/a> a 12-episode series of three-minute anime shorts, starring Miyuki Sawashiro<\/a>, that premiered in July 2015. Crunchyroll<\/a> streamed<\/a> the anime series as it aired.<\/p>\n

The first 12-episode live-action television season based on the manga aired in January-March 2015, and the second<\/a> and third<\/a> 12-episode seasons premiered in January 2016 and April 2017, respectively. The fourth season<\/a> premiered<\/a> in January 2019, and the fifth season<\/a> premiered in April 2020 and aired for 12 episodes. The series had its first special<\/a> in December 2020. The sixth<\/a> season premiered in January 2022, and the seventh season premiered in July 2023. The eighth<\/a> season premiered on January 8 earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Sources: BS TV Tokyo<\/a>, Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official website for the live-action series based on Chie Shinky\u016b‘s Wakako-zake manga unveiled a new visual, more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-118113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}