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10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 Boys-Love Manga Gets Live-Action Series
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
TV Tokyo announced on Wednesday that it is producing a live-action series adaptation of Mamita's 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 (40 Made ni Shitai 10 no Koto) boys-love manga. The series will premiere on the TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TVQ channels on July 4 at 24:14 (effectively, July 5 at 12:14 a.m.), and will also stream on Lemino, U-NEXT, TV Tokyo HP, and TVer services in Japan.
Kōhei Shōji (Kamen Rider Gavv, Mashin Sentai Kiramager, left in image above) plays Keishi Tanaka, while Shunsuke Kazama (Yu-Gi-Oh!, From Up On Poppy Hill, right) plays Suzume Tōjō.
Chihiro Ikeda (live-action Senpai to Kanojo, Kowloon Generic Romance) and Noriaki Kosuge (co-director of Yo-kai Watch: Sora Tobu Kujira to Double Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan! live-action segment) are directing the series, with scripts by Yō Saitō (Aibō). Erina Koyama (live-action Kowloon Generic Romance) is composing the music.
Suzume Tōjō is just three months away from turning forty and realizes there's so much he hasn't done with his life! So, he makes a plan: create a private list of things he's always wanted to do and check them off before turning the big four-oh. It's a rather simple list, filled with goals that should be easy to accomplish, like a takoyaki party, enjoying a parfait out in a cafe, and spending his birthday with a lover. Except, that last one comes with a major problem--Tōjō hasn't had a lover in ten years! But when Keishi Tanaka, Tōjō's handsome junior at the company, discovers the secret list, he's determined to help Tōjō check off every single item--starting with the "lover" part!
Mamita launched the manga in Libre Publishing's Be x Boy magazine in 2022. Libre Publishing released the manga's second and final volume on February 19.
Seven Seas is also releasing Mamita's Wanna Be My Dress-Up Lover? and Natsume Wants to be Trained manga. SuBLime previously released Mamita's The Metalhead Next Door manga.
Sources: 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 live-action series' website, Comic Natalie
