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Shion Miura's The Great age Novel Gets Live-Action Show in February
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
BS 4K channels on February 18 at 10:49 p.m. JST.
The 10-episode series stars Face 2 Fake is composing the music.
The story follows the employees at the Genbu Shobō publishing company. Araki, who is a veteran editor for the dictionary department, is looking for a successor now that he's approaching retirement age. After Majime Mitsuya — a salesman who's a poor talker — meets Masashi Nishioka — Araki's coworker who is sociable and frivolous — Araki overhears their conversation and decides to recruit Majime into the department. The story follows "the awkward humans" Majime and Masashi as they work together to compile a medium-sized Japanese dictionary titled "The Great age" (Daitokai).
ITAN magazine in June 2016. Kodansha published the manga's first compiled book volume in July 2017, and the second and final volume in November 2017.
An anime adaptation that used Kumota's original character designs streamed the anime in the United States.
Sources: NHK, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
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