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Live-Action Samurai Sensei TV Series Premieres in October
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
A live-action television series adaptation of Esusuke Croe's Samurai Sensei comedy manga has been green-lit. The series will premiere in October, and will air every Friday on TV Asahi's Kinyō Night Drama (Friday Night Drama) programming block at 11:15 p.m.
The manga centers around Takeichi Hanpeita, a samurai who finds that he has traveled through time to modern day Japan. He is taken in by an old man who owns a cram school, and begins to work as a lecturer in the school.
Japanese idol and KANJANI Eight band member Ryo Nishikido will play Takeichi Hanpeita. Manami Higa will play Haruka Saeki, an employee in the village office. Johnny's West member Ryūsei Fujii will play Haruka's younger brother, Toranosuke Saeki. Leo Morimoto will play Makoto Saeki, the old owner of the cram school. The series will also star Yuina Kuroshima as Sachiko Akagi, Nicole Ishida as Rio Shinohara, and Zen Kajihara as Kiichi Komiyama.
Kuroe began serializing the manga online on pixiv's "pixiv Comic" service in 2014. Libre Publishing shipped the manga's first compiled book volume last November, and will publish the second volume on September 10.
Source: Comic Natalie
