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More Live-Action Ads Streamed for His Favorite Boys-Love Manga
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Libre Publishing began streaming four more live-action television commercials for Suzuki Tanaka's Aitsu no Daihonmei (His Favorite) manga on Thursday. The ads are the live-action adaptation that Libre had teased in August, stating, "that legendary manga from which the 'clumsy uke' genre was born, it's finally getting a live-action adaptation!?"
Park Edition Yoshida Version
The two versions of the video feature the same conversation:
Text: The super popular boys-love manga "His Favorite" is finally getting a live-action adaptation!?
Satō: Yoshida.
Yoshida: Heh?
Satō: My favorite thing to talk about. If you kiss me, it'll be okay for me to teach you.
Yoshida: I can't necessarily do something like that.
Satō: Can't be helped then.
Yoshida: Ahh!
Text: A handsome man falls in love with a clumsy man.
Narration: His Favorite new book on sale.
Park Edition Satō Version
Park Edition Yoshida Short Version
Park Edition Satō Short Version
Libre created the ads to promote the release of the manga's ninth volume that also shipped in Japan on Thursday.
Kōta Torii plays Yoshida, and Takeaki Isowa plays Satō. Libre also posted some stills from the first four commercials.
Libre's official Twitter account is also hosting a campaign, where if fans follow the account and retweet the video with the hash tag #アイツの大本命, five random followers will win a book card. Additionally, those who purchase the ninth volume from Animate online will receive a bromide card with a message and signature, and those who purchase the volume from Horin Love Books will receive a set of four tin badges. Those who purchase a set of all nine His Favorite volumes as well as the new edition of Tanaka's Menkui! manga from Manga Zenkan will receive a box featuring a special illustration by Tanaka.
SuBLime describes the story of His Favorite as follows:
Yoshida is short, scrawny and generally unattractive. To make matters worse, all the girls in his class hate him because Sato, the hottest guy in school, always uses hanging out with him as an excuse to turn them down. Is Yoshida just a convenient excuse or is there something more? Could this odd couple even make things work?!
Tanaka launched the series in Magazine BExBOY in 2008. Viz Media's SuBLime imprint announced when the imprint launched in 2011 that it had licensed the series. SuBLime released the manga's seventh volume in English in May 2014.
Tokyopop's Blu imprint previously released Tanaka's Menkui! manga in English in 2006-2007.
