{"id":149442,"date":"2025-09-17T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149442\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:40:10","slug":"live-action-power-pro-drama-series-reveals-cast-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149442\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-Action Power Pro Drama Series Reveals Cast – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fuku Suzuki, Leo Matsumoto, Nichika Akutsu, Ayaka Shinya, Sana Ogino, more join cast<\/p>\n

ABC<\/a> TV announced the cast on Tuesday for Power Pro Drama 2025 -Heibon na Shin Shakaijin no Ore ga Success Shita Hanashi- (Power Pro Drama 2025 -The Story of How I, an Ordinary New Working Adult, Found Success-), the live-action series<\/a> based on Konami<\/a>‘s Jikky\u014d Powerful Pro Yaky\u016b (Powerful Pro Baseball) baseball game series. The cast members include:<\/p>\n

Fuku Suzuki as Junpei Nishino
\n\"img_cast02_2\"Image via ABC TV’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Leo Matsumoto as Mamoru Ikari
\n\"img_cast03_2\"Image via ABC TV’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nichika Akutusu as Akio Yabe
\n\"img_cast04\"Image via ABC TV’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ayaka Shinya as Hanako Yamasaki
\n\"img_cast05\"Image via ABC TV’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sana Ogino as Karen Himeno
\n\"img_cast06\"Image via ABC TV’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Minami Kurose as Susumu Ikari
\n\"img_cast07\"Image via ABC TV’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hiroki Konno<\/a> as Dr. Daijobu
\n\"img_cast08\"Image via ABC TV’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tenky\u016b Fukuda as Yasushi Abata
\n\"img_cast09\"Image via ABC TV’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Yoshinori Okada<\/a> as Sh\u016bro Kageyama
\n\"img_cast10\"Image via ABC TV’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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The series will premiere on ABC TV on September 26 at 12:24 a.m. (effectively, September 27). Kohei Tsuji of the comedy duo Nippon no Shach\u014d is writing the live-action drama’s script.<\/p>\n

The drama’s story centers on protagonist Junpei Nishino, a first-year working adult who loves the Jikky\u014d Powerful Pro Yaky\u016b game. He devoted himself to baseball in high school, but a failure in an important game left him traumatized. He has since then experienced a series of defeats in life, and his extremely ordinary life continues. As he starts his first day at work, he discovers the mysterious game “Powerful Working Adult.” Through the mysterious game, Junpei and his colleagues’ abilities are revealed.<\/p>\n

Konami’s Jikky\u014d Powerful Pro Yaky\u016b game series launched in Japan in 1994, and has since then appeared on many game platforms and consoles including Sega<\/a> Saturn, PlayStation<\/a>, PlayStation 2\/3\/4, PlayStation Portable and Vita, Wii, and Nintendo<\/a> Switch, among others.<\/p>\n

Konami’s Jikky\u014d Powerful Pro Yaky\u016b smartphone game debuted in 2014, and has been downloaded 44 million times as of 2021. The smartphone game inspired a web anime<\/a> that debuted in 2021. The web anime had four 10-minute episodes. <\/p>\n

Sources: ABC TV’s website<\/a>, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fuku Suzuki, Leo Matsumoto, Nichika Akutsu, Ayaka Shinya, Sana Ogino, more join cast ABC TV announced the cast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-149442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}