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Live-Action Acma:Game Series Reveals Additional Cast Member
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website for the live-action series of Kōji Megumi and Meebu's Acma:Game manga revealed a new cast member on Sunday. Yukiyoshi Ozawa will play the role of Inoru Hōshin, an archaeologist possessed by the devil's key, and the man who killed Teruasa Oda's father.
Shōtarō Mamiya (live-action Tokyo Revengers movies' Tetta Kisaki, Blue Giant's Yukinori Sawabe) stars in the series as Teruasa Oda. SixTONES member Juri Tanaka plays Ui Saitō, Oda's childhood friend from middle school. Kotone Furukawa plays Yūki Manabe.
Tōya Satō, Shunsuke Kariyama, and Kento Matsuda are directing the series, with scripts by Yoshihiro Izumi and Junichirō Taniguchi. Yūgo Kanno is composing the music.
The series will premiere on NTV in April.
Artist Megumi and story creator Meebu launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in April 2013, and ended it with the 22nd volume in April 2017. Kodansha's K MANGA service offers the manga in English.
Kodansha USA published all 11 volumes of Megumi's Bloody Monday manga. Megumi drew the Bloody Monday Season 2: Pandora no Hako and Bloody Monday: Last Season sequels.
Megumi happens to be the older sister of Girlfriend, Girlfriend manga creator Hiroyuki. When Megumi launched Acma:Game in Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Hiroyuki was serializing his Aho Girl manga in the same magazine. It is unusual for siblings to create manga in the same magazine; the last major example of this was when Tetsuya Chiba (Ashita no Joe) and his younger brother Tarō Nami serialized Ashita Tenki ni Naare and Hakkeyoi, respectively, in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in the 1990s. Hiroyuki moved Aho Girl to Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in June 2015.
Sources: Acma:Game series' website, Comic Natalie
