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My Brother's Husband LGBT Family Manga Gets Live-Action Mini-Series
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
A live-action mini-series adaptation of Gengoroh Tagame's My Brother’s Husband has been green-lit. The mini-series will have three episodes, and will premiere on BS Premium on March 4 at 10:00 p.m. The cast includes:
Former sumo wrestler Baruto Kaito as Mike
Other cast members include Yuri Nakamura as Yaichi's ex-wife Natsuki, and Maharu Nemoto as Yaichi's daughter Kana.
Teruyuki Yoshida and Yukihiro Toda are directing the mini-series, with Toda also penning scripts.
Pantheon Books is releasing the manga in two-in-one omnibus volumes, and it describes the story:
My Brother’s Husband is a family drama that begins with the auspicious arrival of Mike, a Canadian who has come to pay respects to the family of his recently deceased Japanese husband Ryoji, whose only remaining immediate family member is Yaichi—an identical twin brother. As Mike gets accustomed to Japanese morays and the surprising idiosyncrasies of living with Yaichi and his daughter Kana, the sleepy Japanese suburb also learns the true meaning of family.
Tagame launched the manga in Futabasha's Monthly Action magazine in November 2014 and ended it this past May. Futabasha published the manga's fourth compiled volume in July. Pantheon Books shipped the first two-in-one English omnibus volume in June. The manga was nominated for Best Comic at this year's 44th annual Angoulême International Comics Festival. The manga also won an Excellence Award at the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2015. Amazon named the book as one of 20 books in the "Comics & Graphic Novels" category of its Best Books of 2017 list.
Tagame is best known for his gay erotic manga. German publisher Bruno Gmünder Verlag has published Tagame's Gunji, Fisherman’s Lodge, Endless Game, and The Contracts of the Fall manga in English, and Fantagraphics' Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It anthology featured work by Tagame.
Source: Comic Natalie
