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'If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die' Manga Gets Live-Action Film
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The staff for the live-action series of If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die (Oshi ga Budōkan Ittekuretara Shinu) manga announced on Sunday that a live-action film will open next spring. Sayuri Matsumura will reprise her lead role of Eripiyo from the television series.
#劇場版推し武道 公開決定！！🎇#ドラマ推し武道 をご覧の皆さん。
— ドラマL「推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ」公式 (@oshibudo_abc) December 17, 2022
いつもありがとうございます！
この度、「推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ」映画化が決定いたしました！！🎉
解禁ほやほやのPR映像はこちら↓↓https://t.co/ewpDVdn5Rh
公開まで、お楽しみに♡ pic.twitter.com/r9BAnHYtXa
The other returning cast members include Riho Nakamura, MOMO, KANO, SOYO, GUMI, Miu Wada, Himena Irei, Yūdai Toyoda, and Takao Janbo.
Kentaro Otani (live-action Black Butler, Nana) is also returning to direct the film off a screenplay by the series' writer Kumiko Motoyama. Moe Hyūga (If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die anime) is again composing the music.
The PR video above teases that the characters and the story will advance to Tokyo.
The manga's comedy story centers on a woman called "Eripiyo," who is an extreme idol fan. She is wildly enthusiastic about Maina, the shy and lowest-ranking member of the minor underground idol group Cham Jam that performs in Okayama Prefecture. She gets so wrapped up in her love for Maina during a particular performance, that she has a major nosebleed. Eri will continue to give her complete devotion to Maina until the day she can perform at Budōkan (a major performing venue in Tokyo).
The live-action television series version premiered on TV Asahi on October 8, and on ABC TV on October 9.
Hirao launched the manga in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Ryū in 2015. The series ranked on the top 20 list of manga for male readers in Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook in 2016. The manga has reached over 1 million cumulative copies in circulation.
Tokyopop will release the manga in English digitally on January 27 and in print on June 13.
The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in January 2020. Funimation streamed the anime under the title If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die as it aired in Japan, and also streamed an English dub.
Sources: Live-action If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die series' Twitter account, Comic Natalie
