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Live-Action Show of Osamu Tezuka's The Shinsen-gumi Manga Casts Hideyoshi Kan

The official website for Kimi to Yukite Saku ~ Shinsen-gumi Seishun Roku~ (With You I Bloom ~The Shinsen-gumi Youth Chronicle~), the live-action series of Osamu Tezuka's The Shinsen-gumi manga, revealed on Monday that Hideyoshi Kan (Kamen Rider Geats: Jyamato Awakening) will join the cast as Kihei Shibukawa, a new recruit who joins the clan at the same time as the show's leads. The website also announced that the show will air for two consecutive cours (quarter of a year), and it revealed a new key visual:

The series will premiere on TV Asahi's "Super Bara Bara Daisakusen" programming block on April 23 at 24:15 (effectively, April 24 at 12:15 a.m. or April 23 at 11:15 a.m. EDT).

The show stars Kentarō Maeda as Daisaku Kamagiri and Tomoya Oku as Kyujuro Fukakusa.

Hayato Kawai (live-action My Love Story!!, Nisekoi, Kaguya-sama: Love is War films) is directing the series, while Fumi Tsubota (Hugtto! Precure, Waccha PriMagi!, Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom) is penning the scripts. Filming is taking place at Toei Studios Kyoto.

In Kyoto, in the late 1800s, the son of a local book-binder, Kyujuro Fukakusa sees his father murdered before his eyes and vows revenge. In his quest for justice, he answers the recruitment call of The Shinsen-gumi (or "The new squad") a newly-formed special brigade of samurai loyal to the shogun. There he meets fellow recruit and proficient swordsmen, the enigmatic Daisuke Kamakiri.

Despite the gap in their fighting skill levels, the two forma close bond, but can it survive the age of upheaval that is descending on "The Wolves of Mibu?"

Tezuka published the manga in Shueisha's Shonen Book in 1963. The manga inspired a kabuki play in August 2022.

Sources: Kimi to Yukite Saku ~ Shinsen-gumi Seishun Roku~ show's official website, Comic Natalie