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Live-Action Prison School Show Unveils Cast in Costume
posted on by Egan Loo
The live-action television Prison School manga unveiled its cast on Saturday.
Orange) plays Mari Kurihara, the underground student council president who brings together the female students with beauty and power
Aoi Morikawa (Fatal Frame, Sprout) plays Hana Midorikawa, the underground student council's secretary
Ghost in the Shell Arise stage play) plays Meiko Shiraki, "the underground student council vice president who wields a whip on the boys and jiggling dynamite boobs."
Shinya Shokudō movie) plays Takehito "Gakuto" Morokuzu
GTO, Legal High) plays Shingo Wakamoto
Comedian Galigaligalixon plays Reiji "Andre" Andō
The cast member of Jōji "Joe" Nezu will be revealed later
Nobunaga Concerto) plays the Hachimitsu Academy Chairman
Chiyo, who harbors feelings for Kiyoshi
Kamen Rider Wizard) plays Anzu, who harbors feelings for Shingo
The series will premiere on Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl, Nuigurumaa Z) is directing the late-night series at the production studio ROBOT, and the cast will be announced later.
North American publisher Yen Press prints the manga for North America, and it describes the series:
Hachimitsu Private Academy was a revered and elite all-girls' boarding school on the outskirts of Tokyo...once upon a time. But with the new school year comes a revision to school policy: Boys are to be itted into the student body for the first time ever. But on his first day at Hachimitsu, Kiyoshi Fujino discovers that he's one of only five boys enrolled at the school. Their numbers overwhelmed by the thousand girls in the student body, is it heaven or hell that awaits these five (un)fortunates?!
Iguchi said with a laugh that when he heard about the live-action television plans, he initially asked, "Is this for real?" He felt that if he squandered this chance to adapt this amusing manga, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
Hiramoto launched the manga in Gurazeni manga at Kodansha's 37th Annual Manga Awards last year.
The manga is also inspiring an ongoing Summer television streaming the anime.
Hiramoto also wrote the award-inspired a live-action film in 2011.
Source: Comic Natalie
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