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Live-Action Grapara! Romantic Comedy Series Unveils More of Main Cast
posted on by Anita Tai
The staff for the live-action series adaptation of writer Airi Katsura and artist Keishi Nishikida's Grapara! manga revealed more members of the main cast on Saturday.
The cast includes (from left to right):
- Gaku Oshida (Kamen Rider Zi-O, Trillion Game)
- Rina Hashimoto (Iyasaretai Otoko)
- Nanaka Yano
- Mariya Nagao (former AKB48 member, live-action Saki film)
The series stars former SKE48 member Ruka Kitano as protagonist Sakura Katsuragi.
The series will premiere on ABC TV's "Drama L" programming block, and will stream on DMM TV on July 6, at 24:10 JST (effectively, July 7 at 12:10 a.m.).
Kenji Kuwashima is directing the series and Shinya Hokimoto is writing the scripts.
The manga launched on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket service in August 2023. Kodansha published the manga's first compiled book volume in December 2023, and the sixth volume on March 6.
Katsura is the original creator of the Karimazakari adult dōjinshi manga. An ongoing spinoff of the manga titled Karimazaka Re: Reborn Shitara Bōzudatta DT launched in September last year. Katsura and artist Kei Miike recently launched the Karamizakari ~Machikado no Love song~ (Karamizakari ~Love Song on the Street Corner~) manga in Kodansha's new supplement magazine Young Magazine xxx (read as X), on December 23.
Writer Yuu Kuraishi and Nishikida's My Wife is Wagatsuma-san manga launched in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2011, and ended in 2014. Kodansha USA Publishing, Azuki, and Kodansha's K MANGA service publish the manga in English digitally. Crunchyroll also previously published the manga on its manga section until 2018.
Sources: Live-action Grapara! series' X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
