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Crunchyroll Adds Live-Action Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
1st episode available, new episodes every Thursday at 9:00 p.m. EST

Media distribution service Crunchyroll announced on Thursday that it has added the live-action television series of Matsukoma and Hashimoto's Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store (Nietzsche-sensei: Konbini ni, Satori Sedai no Shinjin ga Maiorita) manga. Crunchyroll is streaming the first episode, and will stream new episodes of the series every Thursday at 9:00 p.m. EST. The streaming is available for users in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and South America.

The original comedy manga follows a male part-time late-night convenience store worker named Matsukoma, and the new part-time worker he trains named Tomoharu Nii, nicknamed Nietzsche-sensei. Tomoharu is a university student in the school's Buddhism department. When an angry customer screams at Tomoharu, "Customers are gods!," he replies, "God is dead." The manga follows the part-time worker life of Matsukoma and Tomoharu, the latter of whom continuously baffles his customers and co-workers at the convenience store with his odd ways.

The show stars:


Shōtarō Mamiya as Tomoharu Nii or "Nietzsche-sensei"



Kenji Urai as Matsukoma

Additional cast members include:


Rena Matsui as Kaede Shioyama, a regular customer who falls in love with Nietzsche-sensei



Jirō Satō as the owner of the 3-7 convenience store



Jirou as Watari (lottery superior)



Rio Uchida as the idol-like part-timer Moe Tachizaki



Ryo Matsuda as the puppy-like part-timer Ken Shibata



Yūsuke Saga as the nighttime part-timer Kuroda

Additional cast members include Jirou's comedy duo partner Shinobu Hasegawa as well as Tsuyoshi Muro.

Yūichi Fukuda (HK/Hentai Kamen) is directing the series, and is also writing the scripts. The series premiered in Yomiuri TV in Japan on January 21, and on NTV on January 24.

Matsukoma and Hashimoto launched the manga in Monthly Comic Gene in August 2013 as an adaptation of a series of popular Twitter posts chronicling real-life exploits of convenience store staffers. Kadokawa published the manga's fourth compiled book volume last August. The manga also inspired a drama CD, which Kadokawa released last February.

The series was one of the best-selling first volumes for new manga series that went on sale in 2014, according to a report by The Japan Publication Sales' Distribution Reform Group Comic Team. The manga has over 1 million copies in circulation.

The manga also ranked in the top 15 manga series that had fewer than five volumes as of November 2014 based on a poll by Japanese online bookstore Honya Club in February.


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