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Ken Yasuda to Play Hideaki Anno in Aoi Honō Drama
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The staff for the live-action television series Takami Akai (creator, designer, director of Princess Maker).
Yōkai Ningen Bem, pictured below left) will play Akai.
The coming-of-age drama is based on Shimamoto's own college years in the early 1980s. Anno, Yamada, and Akai have appeared in the manga since Shimamoto actually went to school with them.
Kunimitsu no Matsuri, pictured left) will star in his first over-the-air television series when he plays the title role of Moyuru Honō. Honō is a first-year student in a certain major university of the fine arts in Osaka. Full of ion and ambition, he vows to become a manga creator while also being interested in becoming an animator.
The 3-Mei-sama: Anime wa Anime de Arissho!) is directing and writing the scripts. Fukuda has been longtime good friends with Shimamoto, and he eagerly said that only he can realize Shimamoto's works onscreen.
The original manga first ran in nominated for the third Manga Taisho awards in the following year.
Sources: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web, Oricon
