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GEM TV to Air Live-Action Tokyo Tarareba Musume Series
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Sony's GEM TV channel revealed on Thursday that it will air the live-action television series of Akiko Higashimura's Tokyo Tarareba Musume (Tokyo "What If" Girls) manga. The channel will begin airing the series on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. GMT+8.
The series premiered on NTV in Japan on Wednesday.
The cast includes:
Ryōhei Suzuki as Tetsurō Hayasaka
Kentarō Sakaguchi as KEY
Masatoshi Katō is producing the series and Yūko Matsuda is writing the scripts. Pop trio Perfume is performing the series' theme song "Tokyo Girl."
In the story, Kaori, Rinko, and Koyuki are three single women who are around 30-years-old. They didn't expect to still be single, and with the Olympics approaching, they're wondering what they can do about it.
Higashimura began the ongoing series in Kodansha's Kiss in March 2014. Kodansha published the sixth volume in September. The manga has more than 1.8 million copies in print. The series was nominated for "Best General Manga" at last year's 40th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards, and ranked #2 on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga for female readers in 2016, and #11 on the 2017 list. Da Vinci magazine ranked it #19 in its "Book of the Year" list last month.
Higashimura's ongoing Princess Jellyfish manga inspired a 2010 anime, and a 2014 live-action film. Higashimura's Omo ni Naitemasu also inspired a live-action television series in 2013.
