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Dragon Zakura School Manga Gets Korean Drama Next Year
posted on by Egan Loo
This year's 51st issue of Kodansha's Weekly Morning magazine has revealed on Thursday that Norifusa Mita's Dragon Zakura school manga is being adapted into a television drama in Korea. The drama will premiere in January.
In the original Kodansha Manga Award-winning manga, an ex-biker gang member and lawyer named Kenji Sakuragi restarts his life as a teacher at a rough high school. He inspires a class to apply for Tokyo University — the most prestigious university in Japan. The manga ran in Weekly Morning from 2003 to 2007, and the 21 compiled book volumes have sold about 6 million copies.
Hiroshi Abe (Sanctuary, Shin Kyūseishu Densetsu Hokuto no Ken, Trick) and Kyōko Hasegawa already starred in a live-action Japanese television drama version in 2005. This January, Hasegawa will reprise her Dragon Zakura role in a loose sequel called Angel Bank Tenshoku Dairinin (Angel Bank, Occupational Change Agent). This new Japanese drama is an adaptation of Mita's Angel Bank: Dragon Zakura Gaiden manga about an English teacher who becomes an advisor for other people changing their careers.
The Korean drama version has a Japanese title, Ochikobore, S Daigaku e Iku, although the cast and airing schedule in Japan have yet to be announced.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun
