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Replica: Revenge of the Ex-Wife Manga Gets Live-Action Series

TV Tokyo announced on Wednesday that it is producing a live-action series adaptation of Tomo Tanaka and Hacchi Hirai's Replica: Revenge of the Ex-Wife (Replica Moto Tsuma no Fukushū) manga. The series will premiere in the "Drama Premiere" programming block of TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TVQ Broadcasting Kyushu on July 7 at 11:06 p.m. (10:06 a.m. EDT).

Reina Triendl (live-action Tag, Tokyo Alice, Terrace House) stars in the series as Aoi Fujimura (first image below) and Sumire Itō (second image). In the story, both are the same person, but Aoi changes her appearance and identity to Sumire in the beginning of the story.

MangaPlaza has released the manga in English, and it describes the story:

Aoi grew up constantly being made fun of and bullied for her appearance. After going through one bad experience after the other in school, she finally gets to marry the man of her dreams who loves her for who she is. However, he too eventually seeks out someone better-looking and cheats on her, resulting in their divorce. Oddly enough though... the woman he cheated on Aoi with is the same girl who bullied her throughout their school years...! Now Aoi's on a mission to get revenge on the man who cheated on her who is now married to the woman who made her life miserable. She has her face reshaped, her name changed to Sumire, and slowly begins to find her way into their lives...

Keita Motohashi, Hajime Senoo, and Kazunori Yamashita are directing the series, with scripts by Yasuhiro Yoshida, Erika Tōyama, and Miho Aotsuka. Kōji Endō is composing the music. The artist Amazing JIRO (Gannibal) is handling the special makeup.

Tanaka and Hirai launched the manga in the Comic Tatan website in November 2020. Coamix published the manga's 15th compiled book volume on May 20.

Source: Comic Natalie