Prison School Live-Action Drama Images & Cast Revealed
The official website of the live-action drama adaptation of Akira Hiramoto’s Prison School (Kangoku Gakuen)
manga has launched and revealed the first image about the upcoming
series, airing from October 26th. In addition, the main cast was also
revealed.
The drama’s website has revealed that
the TV series will begin on MBS on Monday, October 26 at 12:50am JST.
The drama will then air on TBS on the 28th at 1:11am JST.
The main cast of the live action drama has been revealed in costume and includes:
- Taishi Nakagawa (Susumu Minami from Minami kun no Koibito: My Little Lover) will play Kiyoshi Fujino
- Tokio Emoto (Shyogo Yokota in The Wings of the Kirin) as Takehito Morokuzu
- The actor of Jouji Nezu will be revealed soon
- Garigarigarikuson (Japanese Comedian) as Reiji Ando
- Masato Yano (Suguru Teshigawara in GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka Live Action Drama) will act Shingo Wakamoto
- Hirona Yamazaki (Ichika Akimoto in Kamisama no Iutoori) plays Mari Kurihara
- Aoi Morikawa (Tomoko Nagano from The World of Kanako) as Hana Midorikawa
- Asana Mamoru (Maki in Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead) acting as Meiko Shiraki
- Rena Takeda (Lil from Attack on Titan Live Action) playing as Chiyo Kurihara
- Yuko Araki (Yuka in Dragon Seinendan) as Anzu Yokoyama
- Masahiro Takashima (Kazuma Aoki from Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II) will play The Chairman
The TV drama will be directed by Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl, Mutant Girls Squad)
and the series will air during the late night broadcast block. As
Iguchi was made known about the announcement, he was in disbelief and
laughing at the idea. But he did not want to miss the opportunity to
miss out adapting the manga.
Prison School (Kangoku Gakuen)
is a comedy, ecchi romance manga written and illustrated by Akira
Hiramoto, who has work on various other successful series including Ago Nashi Gen to Ore Monogatari and Yarisugi Companion to Atashi Monogatari.
The series began in early 2011 being published in Kodansha’s Young
Magazine. To date the series has a total of 16 compiled volumes, with
the latest releasing on March 6 this year, and has over 3.5 million
volumes in circulation in Japan. The series has also won the Best
General Manga award at the 2014 Kodansha’s 37th Annual Manga Awards last
May. An anime adaptation of the series was announced earlier this year that began in July.
Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:
Hachimitsu Academy, known for its strict academic standards and even stricter school code, is making a giant change this year. In the first time in school history, they are allowing boys to be admitted. As Fujino Kiyoshi starts his first day at Hachimitsu Academy he is shocked to find out that there are only 4 other guys in the entire school, making the ratio of girls to boys 200:1. And to their dismay, not one of the thousand girls will talk to them or even acknowledge them. But Kiyoshi and the guys are about to find out about the shadow student council that has been threatening the female students about interacting with male students.
The live-action TV drama adaptation of Prison School
will start broadcasting on MBS every Monday from October 26 at 12:50am
JST. The anime itself airs every Saturday at 1:05am JST, for a total of 12 episodes.
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