The\u00a0live-action series will have two seasons to adapt the entire manga. The first season will debut on October 31 at 11:00 p.m. on WOWOW<\/a> and will have six episodes.<\/p>\n The series stars\u00a0Riko Fukumoto<\/a>\u00a0as Ninako Kinoshita and Kyohei Takahashi as Ren Ichinose.<\/p>\n Additional cast members include (character romanizations are not confirmed for all characters):<\/p>\n The series is reuniting the staff of WOWOW’s previous live-action series\u00a0adaptation<\/a>\u00a0of Sakisaka’s\u00a0Blue Spring Ride<\/a>\u00a0(Ao Haru Ride) manga that premiered as two seasons in September 2023 and January 2024. Masato Kimura and Y\u016bsuke Matsuda are again directing the\u00a0Strobe Edge\u00a0series, and\u00a0Sayaka Kuwamura<\/a>\u00a0is again penning the script.<\/p>\n The Strobe Edge\u00a0manga spawned a spinoff story in the November issue of Shueisha<\/a>‘s Bessatsu Margaret<\/a> magazine, which shipped on October 10. The 32-page spinoff story focused on the character Takumi And\u014d.<\/p>\n Strobe Edge previously\u00a0inspired<\/a>\u00a0a live-action film that opened in Japan in March 2015. S\u014dta Fukushi<\/a> and Kasumi Arimura<\/a>\u00a0starred<\/a>\u00a0in the film.<\/p>\n Viz Media<\/a> published<\/a> the 10-volume manga in English, and it describes the story.<\/p>\n What is love, anyway? Ninako Kinoshita’s friends tell her it’s one thing, but Ninako wonders what this mysterious feeling really is. When she meets Ren Ichinose, a handsome, enigmatic guy who all the girls worship, her life takes an unexpected turn. With just a few words and a smile, he changes her world…\u00a0<\/p>\n Sakisaka launched the manga in Bessatsu Margaret\u00a0magazine in 2007, and\u00a0ended<\/a> it in 2010.<\/p>\n Viz Media has also released Sakisaka’s Blue Spring Ride; Sakura, Saku!<\/a>; and\u00a0Love Me, Love Me Not<\/a>\u00a0manga in English.<\/p>\n Sources: Comic Natalie<\/a>, live-action Strobe Edge series’ X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiryu plays former schoolmate Mao Sugimoto in October 31 series The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-105597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Image](\"\/thumbnails\/max600x600\/cms\/news.9\/230447\/g4dyruiaqaavs4v.jpg\")
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