{"id":141946,"date":"2025-09-14T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141946\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:17:07","slug":"live-action-hirayasumi-series-announces-november-3-premiere-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141946\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-Action Hirayasumi Series Announces November 3 Premiere – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Series based on Keigo Shinz\u014d<\/a>‘s slice-of-life manga that is also inspiring anime<\/p>\n

NHK<\/a> announced on Friday that the live-action series<\/a> of Keigo Shinz\u014d<\/a>‘s Hirayasumi<\/a> manga will premiere on November 3. The company also released a still from the upcoming show:<\/p>\n

\"PhotoImage via www.nhk.jp<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Amane Okayama<\/a> plays<\/a> protagonist Hiroto Ikuta in the series. <\/p>\n

Nana Mori<\/a> (Weathering With You<\/a>, live-action Insomniacs After School<\/a>) plays the role of Natsumi Kobayashi<\/a>, Hiroto’s cousin who moved to Tokyo to study at an art school; and Riho Yoshioka<\/a> (Her Blue Sky<\/a>, live-action Kowloon Generic Romance<\/a>) plays Yomogi Tachibana, a real estate agent Hiroto meets by chance. <\/p>\n

Kana Matsumoto, Ema Kawawada<\/a>, and K\u014dji Taktasuchi are directing the series, with scripts by Y\u014dko Yonaiyama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NHK will air the live-action series every day from Monday to Thursday at 10:45 p.m. (9:45 q.m. EDT) in the broadcaster’s “Yoru Dra” (Evening Drama) programming block. The project will have 20 15-minute episodes over its five-week run. <\/p>\n

\"aaa_01-hiraysumi-creator-illustration-\"Image courtesy of Viz Media<\/p>\n

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Viz Media<\/a> licensed<\/a> the manga and began publishing it in May 2024. Viz describes the story:<\/p>\n

\tAt 29 years old, carefree Hiroto Ikuta doesn’t have a girlfriend, a full-time job, or a plan for the future\u2014and he couldn’t be happier. Hiroto’s breezy attitude isn’t easy for everyone to understand, though. In a world filled with anxiety, confusion, and grief, Hiroto and the people around him are all just doing their best to figure out this thing called life.<\/p>\n

Shinz\u014d launched<\/a> the manga in Shogakukan<\/a>‘s Weekly Big Comic Spirits<\/a> magazine in April 2021. Shogakukan published the manga’s ninth compiled book volume on July 30, and the series has over 1.1 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga was nominated<\/a> for the 15th Manga Taisho awards in January 2022, ranked<\/a> #18 in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha<\/a>‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook in December 2022, nominated<\/a> for the 27th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in February 2023, and nominated<\/a> for Best Continuing Manga Series in the 2nd American Manga Awards.<\/p>\n

The manga is also inspiring an anime<\/a>, with Viz Media co-producing the anime with Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions<\/a> Co., Ltd. Production +h.<\/a> (The Orbital Children<\/a>, Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction<\/a>) is animating the project. <\/p>\n

Denpa<\/a> has licensed<\/a> Shinz\u014d’s Holiday Junction<\/a> collection of short manga. The book contains seven one-shot manga. Shogakukan shipped the book in Japan in July 2016.<\/p>\n

Sources: NHK<\/a>, Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Series based on Keigo Shinz\u014d‘s slice-of-life manga that is also inspiring anime NHK announced on Friday that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-141946","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\/141946","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=141946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}