The official website for the live-action adaptation of Kōji Megumi and Meebu’s Acma:Game manga revealed two additional cast members on Tuesday. Juri Tanaka, a member of SixTONES, will portray Ui Saitō, Oda’s childhood friend from middle school.
The manga revolves around Teruaki Oda, a high school senior blessed with intelligence, attractiveness, and wealth. This seemingly flawless scion of Japan’s influential Oda Group becomes entangled in a harrowing game with the son of the Belmont mafia family’s boss.
Shōtarō Mamiya, known for his roles in live-action Tokyo Revengers movies as Tetta Kisaki and Blue Giant as Yukinori Sawabe, takes on the role of Teruaki Oda.
The series is directed by Tōya Satō, Shunsuke Kariyama, and Kento Matsuda, featuring scripts by Yoshihiro Izumi and Junichirō Taniguchi. Yūgo Kanno is responsible for composing the music.
Scheduled to premiere on NTV in April.
The manga, created by story creator Meebu and artist Megumi, debuted in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine in April 2013, concluding its run with the 22nd volume in April 2017. The manga is available in English on Kodansha’s K MANGA service.
Kodansha USA has published all 11 volumes of Megumi’s Bloody Monday manga, and Megumi has also illustrated the sequels Bloody Monday Season 2: Pandora no Hako and Bloody Monday: Last Season.
Megumi, the creator of Acma:Game, is the elder sister of Hiroyuki, the manga artist behind Girlfriend, Girlfriend.
Their simultaneous serialization in Weekly Shōnen Magazine is a rarity, reminiscent of the Chiba brothers, Tetsuya (Ashita no Joe) and Tarō Nami, who published Ashita Tenki ni Naare and Hakkeyoi in the same magazine during the 1990s.
Notably, Hiroyuki shifted Aho Girl to Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in June 2015, diverging from the common practice of siblings creating manga in the same publication.
