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Live-Action Dragon Zakura Sequel Show Casts Yurina Hirate
posted on by Alex Mateo
The official website for the live-action Dragon Zakura Two sequel manga revealed on Tuesday that Yurina Hirate (pictured below) will play Kaede Iwasaki, who is a top-level bton player in Japan.
Actor Thermae Romae) is reprising his role as Kenji Sakuragi from the previous live-action adaptations of the original manga. The story is set 10 years after the previous series.
The cast includes:
as Kenta Hara, a student at Tokyo University who has a fascination of insects. He is suffering from a personal problem that isolates him from his friends.
Sara Shida as Mari Kosugi, who has excellent grades but wants to get a job after graduation
Ōji Suzuka as Ryо̄ Fujii, who has high grades and has a habit of looking down on others
Seishirō Katō as Kо̄ichiro Amano, who has an inferiority complex due to being compared to his great younger brother
The other cast include:
- Masami Nagasawa as Naomi Mizuno
- Sara Minami as Nao Hayase
- Hayato Sano as Keita Komeyama
- Sagiri Seina as Kaori Kishimoto
- Noriko Eguchi as Kumiko Tatsuno
- Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Hiroyuki Takahara
The series was initially slated to premiere in summer 2020, but was premiere in April.
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publishing the manga in English digitally in January 2018, and it describes the story:
Prior to the 2020 Education Reform, “our man” is coming back!
He's the legendary attorney Sakuragi Kenji, who will waltz back to the fallen Ryuzan High School where the students' academic aptitude is plummeting. In opposition to apathetic students and “The Empress” (Representative of the Chief Director) who wields overwhelming authority, he will start a revolution along with Mizuno, his former pupil.
Part 2 of Dragon Zakura, the legendary “manga that will help you the University of Tokyo entrance exams” — which helped change the landscape of Japan's university entrance exams — is here at last! Rest assured, entering the University of Tokyo is going to be a cinch!
The 2003-2007 Kodansha Manga Award-reported in 2015 that China's Alibaba group was producing its own live-action drama.
The original manga centers on Kenji Sakuragi, a lawyer and former motorcycle gang member. Sakuragi becomes a teacher at Ryuzan High School to help a small group of students the infamously difficult test to get into Japan's top university, the University of Tokyo.
Anime News Network's Source: Dragon Zakura Two live-action series' website
