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Live-Action Wingman Series Reveals 7 New Cast , Key Visual
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The staff for the live-action television Wingman manga revealed the key visual and seven more cast on Wednesday.
The newly announced cast are (from top left to bottom right in image above):
- Hina Kikuchi as Miku Ogawa
- Hiyori Katada as Kumiko Fuzawa
- Amane Uehara as Momoko Morimoto
- Jōtarō as Tomō Fukumoto
- Yūno Ōhara as Sakagami
- Ui Mihara as Kurotsu
- Haruki Tachibana as Tatsuo Saitō
The series stars Konatsu Katō (live-action I's) as Aoi.
Japan Sinks: 2020) are penning the scripts for the series.
Rock band BLUE ENCOUNT is performing the opening theme song "chang[e]."
The series will begin airing on October 22 at 24:30 (effectively, October 23 at 12:30 a.m.) to celebrate the series' 40th anniversary, with new episodes every Tuesday. The series will also run on the TV Tokyo and Toei Video are producing in collaboration with DMM TV.
Wingman follows tokusatsu (special effects) nerd Kenta Hirono, a second-year middle school student who dreams of becoming a hero. One day, a mysterious woman named Aoi from the realm of Podreams appears before him. After sketching his superhero Wingman on the woman's Dream Notebook, he's able to transform into the hero and becomes involved in a fight between good and evil.
The series inspired an anime adaptation in 1984.
Katsura launched the series in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1983. It ended serialization in 1985.
Many of Katsura's manga series have inspired anime and live-action adaptations, including Video Girl Ai, Garo: Crimson Moon.
Source: Press release
