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Dr. DMAT Manga Gets Live-Action Series Starring Tadayoshi Ōkura
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
TBS in January and will air on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m.
The story follows Hibiki Yakumo, a member of Tokyo's Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) that risks their lives to rescue people trapped by earthquakes, tunnel collapses, train or plane accidents, landslides, poison gas outbreaks, or other disasters. The Tokyo Fire and Disaster Management Agency is also cooperating on the filming.
The following people will also co-star in the show as staff at a hospital who work with Hibiki: Hey! Say! JUMP band member Yuya Takaki (Gokusen 3) will play of the Tokyo Fire and Disaster Management Agency's hyper rescue squad.
Takano and Kikuchi launched the manga in Grand Jump magazine on November 20. Shueisha published the fifth compiled volume of the manga in May.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
