{"id":34873,"date":"2025-07-31T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34873\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:05:10","slug":"live-action-hirayasumi-series-casts-amane-okayama-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34873\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-Action Hirayasumi Series Casts Amane Okayama – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okayama plays protagonist Hiroto Ikuta in fall series<\/p>\n

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

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NHK<\/a> announced on Thursday that Amane Okayama<\/a> will play protagonist Hiroto Ikuta in the live-action series<\/a> adaptation of Keigo Shinz\u014d<\/a>‘s Hirayasumi<\/a> manga. NHK also revealed that Kana Matsumoto, Ema Kawawada<\/a>, and K\u014dji Taktasuchi will direct the series, with scripts by Y\u014dko Yonaiyama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NHK will begin airing the 15-minute live-action version this fall, 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.<\/p>\n

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

At 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 Wednesday, 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 also 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":"Okayama plays protagonist Hiroto Ikuta in fall series Image courtesy of Viz Media \u00a9 \u771f\u9020\u572d\u4f0d\/\u5c0f\u5b66\u9928 NHK announced on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-34873","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\/34873","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=34873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}