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Kaijū Club Live-Action Series Reveals Cast, New Visual
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the Kaijū Club Kūsō Tokusatsu Seishunki (Kaijū Club Fictional Special Effects Youth Chronicle) live-action series revealed the main cast and a visual for the show on Monday.
The cast, including previously announced star Kanata Hongou (live-action Gantz' Jōichirō Nishi, Attack on Titan's Armin Arlert), includes:
Ryūsei Yokohama as Katsuo
Masato Yano as Shingo
Ryō Katō as Yūsuke
Shogo Yamaguchi as Nishi
Tokio Emoto as Jō
Muga Tsukaji as Cap
Fumika Baba as Yuriko
The four-episode series is set in the mid-1970s, and focuses on a club with otaku members who have devoted their youths to the kaijū (giant monsters) that appear as antagonists in tokusatsu (special effects) shows. The club is trying to self-publish a magazine that deals with the topic.
Takashi Sumida (SENGOKUCHOJYUGIGA) is directing the series, and Kensaku Sakai (SENGOKUCHOJYUGIGA, Game Center CX) is in charge of planning and is co-writing the script. Kōta Fukihara (live-action Yowamushi Pedal, Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light) is writing the script. The show premieres on MBS on June 4 at 12:50 a.m. (effectively June 5 morning), and will premiere on TBS on June 6 at 1:28 a.m. (effectively June 7 morning). Ultraman production company Tsuburaya Productions is collaborating with the series production.
Hongou said that while the series will appeal to everyone, it will be especially nostalgic to the generation who went crazy over tokusatsu shows. Sakai noted that the series is set "in the time with no DVDs, and Ultraman and kaijū were aimed toward kids. Even if everyone looked at them funny, there were still people who loved kaijū."
Source: CinemaCafe.net
