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Live-Action Dr. Ashura Series Casts Masaya Sano
posted on by Anita Tai
The staff for the live-action TV series of Ryō Koshino's Dr. Ashura manga announced on Saturday that Ae! Group boy band member Masaya Sano is joining the cast. Sano plays Tamotsu Yakushiji, a clumsy and timid intern. This is Sano's first role in a primetime television series.
The series will air on Fuji TV's Wednesday 10:00 p.m. "Shin-Sui 10 Drama) timeslot starting on April 16.
Wakana Matsumoto (Kamen Rider Den-O, live-action Cells at Work!) stars as protagonist Shura Anno.
The manga's story centers on Shura Anno, a talented emergency room doctor who has an unusual desire for life-threatening situations. She does not turn down any patient and she uses every means to save them.
Koshino serialized the manga in Nihonbungeisha's Weekly Manga Goraku magazine from 2015 to 2016. Nihonbungeisha published three compiled book volumes of the manga. It will also publish a two-volume new edition of the manga on April 11, which includes a special new one-shot story.
Koshino launched his Machi-Isha Jumbo manga series in Kodansha's Weekly Gendai magazine in 2011, and ended it in 2015. The manga inspired the live-action Town Doctor Jumbo!! series, in 2013, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired.
Sources: Dr. Asuma drama's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
