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Live-Action Wakako-zake Series Gets 10th Season Partly Set in Australia
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The BS TV Tokyo channel announced on Monday that the live-action series based on Chie Shinkyū's Wakako-zake manga will receive a 10th season that will premiere on BS TV Tokyo next January. Rina Takeda will again star in the series.
For the first time in the series, the season will have episodes set and filmed overseas. Specifically, the production filmed the first two episodes at a beach resort at Australia's Gold Coast, in collaboration with the Tourism Australia agency, Tourism and Events Queensland, Experience Gold Coast, and the airline Qantas.
Shinkyū started the manga in Coamix's Monthly Comic Zenon magazine in 2011. Media Do released the first volume of the manga digitally in English on several platforms in October 2018. The manga inspired a 12-episode series of three-minute anime shorts, starring Miyuki Sawashiro, that premiered in July 2015. Crunchyroll streamed the anime series as it aired.
The first 12-episode live-action television season based on the manga aired in January-March 2015, and the second and third 12-episode seasons premiered in January 2016 and April 2017, respectively. The fourth season premiered in January 2019, and the fifth season premiered in April 2020 and aired for 12 episodes. The series had its first special in December 2020. The sixth season premiered in January 2022, and the seventh season premiered in July 2023. The eighth season premiered on January 8, 2025, and the ninth season premiered on October 1, 2025.
Sources: BS TV Tokyo, Comic Natalie
