The July issue of Hakusensha's Bessatsu Hana to Yume shōjo magazine has announced on Tuesday that a live-action television drama adaptation of Aya Kanno's Otomen romantic comedy manga has been green-lit. The drama will premiere on August 1 in Japan. Otomen revolves around a high school junior named Asuka Masamune: manly man and judo/karate/kendo master on the outside, lover of caramel macciato, shōjo manga, sweets, and pink things on the inside. Masaki Okada will play Asuka in his first lead role in a live-action television drama. Kaho, Okada's co-star in the film adaptation of Fusako Kuramochi's A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Tennen Kokekkō) manga, will play the main heroine Ryō Miyakozuka.
Viz Media published the second volume of the manga in North America earlier this month. The manga has been running in Bessatsu Hana to Yume since 2006, and over 250 million copies of the seven compiled volumes have been published in Japan.
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Wow! Masaki Okada is definitely having his first lead role in a jdrama. I first knew him in Hanazakiri no Kimitachi e as Sekime. He's so cute there! So here is the info from DramaWiki.
Otomen
Details
- Title: オトメン(乙男)
- Title (romaji): Otomen
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Romance, comedy
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 2009-Aug-01 start
- Air time: Saturday 23:00
Synopsis
The story centers around the popular high school boy Masamune Asuka, the top kendo fighter in the nation. However, beneath his cool exterior, he is actually fond of sweets and shojo manga, and is skilled in sewing and cooking. When he instantly falls for the transfer student Miyakozuka Ryo, his secret is in danger of being exposed. --TokyographCast
- Okada Masaki as Masamune Asuka
- Kaho as Miyakozuka Ryo
- Kimura Ryo as Tonomine Hajime
- Seto Koji as Ariake Yamato
- Yanagihara Kanako as Hanazawa Yumeko
- Tsurumi Shingo as Asuka's father
- Yamamoto Mirai as Asuka's mother
- Takada Nobuhiko (高田延彦) as Ryo's father
- Sano Kazuma
Production Credits
- Original writing (manga): Otomen by Kanno Aya
- Screenwriters: Noguchi Teruo (野口照夫), Kurihara Maki (栗原鞠記), Hanzawa RitsukoFukuhara Kota (吹原幸太) (半澤律子),
- Producer: Sekiya Masayuki (関谷正征)
- Director: Tanimura Masaki
What made my day is that my beloved Seto Koji is here!! Whahahahha!!!
Oh! He's 175cm now! Before, he's just 174cm...heheheh...and he's getting taller and taller!
Isn't he cute!?His Atashinchi no Danshi hair and clothes!!
weeeeeeeeee!!!
I'm excited in this upcoming drama 'cause of Seto Koji, Okada Masaki and its Romance-Comedy genre!! Whahha...Japan is awesome to produce this type of drama you know!
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