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Fumi Nikaido, GACKT Star in Live-Action Film of Tonde Saitama Comedy Manga
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Mineo Maya's Tonde Saitama manga is getting a live-action film adaptation that will open in 2019.
The film will star:
GACKT as Rei Asami
Densha Otoko) is writing the script.
In the story, those who live in Saitama prefecture are ruthlessly persecuted by those who live in Tokyo, so the citizens of Saitama prefecture hide this fact from others. High school student Momomi Dannoura is the son of the governor of Tokyo, and he is also the student council president at Hokuhodo Academy, the top high school in Tokyo. One day, he meets Rei Asami, a mysterious transfer student who has returned from America. Rei and Momomi are captivated by each other, but Momomi knows Rei is from Saitama prefecture. The manga tells the story of two people split by a prefectural border, a Saitama "Romeo and Juliet." The couple try to elope and start a revolution to liberate Saitama prefecture.
Maya originally launched the one-volume manga in Takarajimasha published a new compiled version of the manga in 2015 titled Kono Manga ga Sugoi! comics Tonde Saitama. The manga has 620,000 copies in print.
Maya also wrote the classic shōjo comedy manga ran in Tokyo in December 2016.
The manga has inspired various spinoff manga, a television anime adaptation in 1982, and the Patalliro Saiyuki! spinoff manga also inspired a television anime series in 2005.
Images © Mineo Maya "Kono Manga ga Sugoi! comics Tonde Saitama" / Takarajimasha
