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Noriko Sasaki's Channel wa Sono Mama! Manga Gets Live-Action TV Series

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Series about rookie broadcast reporter airs in Hokkaido, streams on Netflix in March 2019

This year's 30th issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine revealed on Monday that Noriko Sasaki's Channel wa Sonomama! manga is getting a live-action television series in March 2019. The series will air on HTB (Hokkaido Television Broadcasting Co.,Ltd.) as a local broadcast and will also stream only on Netflix.

The manga centers on Hanako Yukimaru, who is in her second year working at Hokkaido☆TV as a news reporter. For a report for the news at noon, she travels with a top reporter to a river bank with high water due to a heavy rain storm. The top reporter was supposed to broadcast a live report from the scene, but due to a falling accident, he hurts his leg. Hanako is asked to quickly do the live report in his place, but she hasn't prepared herself yet for such a thing. As a result, Hanako's first live broadcast turns into quite a scene. The manga then follows the lives of Hanako and her coworkers after this incident.

Katsuyuki Motohiro is the chief director for the series, and Tadahisa Fujimura is directing. Masamichi Ureshino is producing the show. Fujimura and Ureshino both worked as directors on the local HTB variety show Suiyō Dō Deshō (How do you like Wednesday?), which ran from 1996-2002.

The original manga ran in Big Comic Spirits from 2008 to 2013, and was produced in collaboration with Hokkaido Television Broadcasting Co.,Ltd. Shogakukan published six compiled volumes for the manga.

Source: Big Comic Spirits issue 30


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