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From Five to Nine Live-Action TV Series' Cast, Premiere Date Revealed
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The staff of the video adaptation of Miki Aihara's From Five to Nine (Go-ji kara Ku-ji made) manga revealed that the adaptation will be a live-action TV series. The series' tentative full title is 5→9 Watashi ni Koi Shita Ikemen Sugiru Obō-san (5→9 The Hot Monk Who Fell in Love With Me). In addition, the project's official website revealed the show's main cast and premiere date on Thursday.
Satomi Ishihara (seen right) (live-action Attack on Titan's Hange Zoë, Legend of the Millennium Dragon's Mizuha) will play Junko Sakuraba, the show's protagonist. Tomohisa Yamashita (live-action Ikebukuro West Gate Park's Shun Mizuno, live-action Kurosagi's Kurosagi) will play Takane Hoshikawa, the monk whom Junko's parents set her up with.
The series will premiere on Fuji TV in October, and will air every Monday at 9:00 p.m.
The manga centers on Junko Sakuraba, a 27-year-old lecturer at an English conversation school who has no boyfriend. Her parents set up a marriage interview for her with a man who turns out to be a Buddhist monk. However, Junko has no intention of becoming a temple wife, so she refuses to do the interview. Soon afterward, the man signs up to become her private student.
Aihara (Honey Hunt, Hot Gimmick, Tokyo Boys & Girls) launched the series in Cheese! in January 2010 after publishing a one-shot in 2009. Shogakukan will release the 11th compiled volume on September 25, and a limited edition of the volume will include a drama CD.
Viz Media released Hot Gimmick, Honey Hunt, and Tokyo Boys & Girls in North America.
Update: Ishihara and Yamashita did not previously work together on Summer Nude as previously reported. Thanks, poonk.
Source: Comic Natalie
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