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Shohei Manabe's Kujō no Taizai Manga Gets Live-Action Netflix Series
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Netflix and TBS announced on Monday that they are producing a live-action series adaptation of Shohei Manabe's Kujō no Taizai (Kujō's Deadly Sins) manga that will debut exclusively on Netflix in spring 2026. Yuuya Yagira (live-action Gintama, Aoi Honō, Crows Explode, left in image below) plays Taiza Kujō, while Hokuto Matsumura (Suzume, live-action xxxHOLiC, 5 Centimeters Per Second, right) plays Shinji Karasuma.
Other cast members include:
- Elaiza Ikeda as Nimi Yakushimae, a social worker who watches over the accused
- Keita Machida as Kengo Mibu, Taiza's connection to the criminal underworld who often brings him annoying cases, and runs a bicycle repair shop as a front
- Takuma Otoo as Yoshinobu Arashiyama, who treats Taiza and Mibu as his nemeses
- Tsuyoshi Muro as Kiyoshi Kyōgoku, the young boss of the Fushimi yakuza group
The manga centers on Kujō, a lawyer who would even defend the devil. In the new Reiwa era where chaos is spreading, he is the "guardian of darkness" who operates behind the scenes.
Nobuhiro Doi, Takeyoshi Yamamoto, and Hiroshi Adachi are directing the series. Shinji Nemoto is penning the script.
Manabe launched the manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine in October 2020. Shogakukan will publish the manga's 15th compiled book volume on October 30, and the series has over 4 million copies in circulation so far.
Manabe launched the main Ushijima the Loan Shark manga in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in 2004, and ended the series in March 2019. The manga's 46th and final volume shipped in May 2019. The main manga won in the General category of the 56th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2011. The series was nominated for an Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2008 and 2010, as well as for France's Angoulême Comics Awards in 2008.
The Ushijima the Loan Shark manga's live-action television series adaptation ran from October-December 2010, and the first film opened in August 2012. A second season premiered in January 2014, with a second film then premiering in May 2014. The third season premiered in July 2016, while the third film opened in Japan in September 2016. The fourth and final live-action film, Yamikin Ushijima-kun The Final, opened in Japan in October 2016. A live-action spinoff series titled Yamikin Ushijima-kun Gaiden Yamikin Saihara-san (Ushijima the Loan Shark Side Story: Saihara the Loan Shark) premiered in Japan in September 2022.
Source: Comic Natalie
