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Takumi-kun Boys-Love Novels Made into Live-Action Film

posted on by Egan Loo
Novels also inspired upcoming manga from Tokyopop's Blu imprint

The September issue (on sale July 30) of Kadokawa Shoten's Asuka Ciel magazine announced that Shinobu Gotou's Takumi-kun series of boys-love novels will be made into a live-action film. The story, which has sold over 4 million volumes, follows the main lead Takumi-kun as he deals with life in an all-boys academy and his feelings for a beguiling half-French American boy. The movie will tentatively cover the first novel (Soshite, Harukaze ni Sasayaite) and will star Tomo Yanagishita (The Prince of Tennis musical's Kaoru) as Takumi-kun.

Other actors include Keisuke Katō (Hikaru in Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e: Ikemen Paradise) as the love interest, Yukihiro Takiguchi (Shūichirō in The Prince of Tennis musical), Yasuka Saitō (Shunji in The Prince of Tennis live-action movie), Hiroki Aiba (Shūsuke in The Prince of Tennis musical and movie), Wataru Hatano (Sam Houston in Toward the Terra…), and Ryō Sakaguchi. Tokyopop's Blu boys-love imprint will release the first volume of Ciel magazine's manga version (as drawn by the novels' illustrator, Kazumi Ooya) this September.

Source: Chuosha


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