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"Itazura na Kiss" Live Action Drama Series Stars Mezool, GokaiBlue


Kaoru Tada's classic shoujo manga Itazura na Kiss will have another live action drama series adaptation. To be entitled “Itazura Na Kiss ~Love in Tokyo”, the drama stars Honoka Miki (Kamen Rider OOO's Mezool human form) as the lead character, Kotoko Aihara.

Yūki Furukawa (High School Debut) will play as Naoki Irie, while Yūki Yamada (Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger's GokaiBlue) plays as Naoki's love rival Kinnosuke Ikezawa. Miki stated that she herself is a huge fan of Tada's work, and owns all of the manga volumes.

In the original manga, Kotoko confesses her love for Naoki, since she saw him on their first day of high school. However, Naoki rejects her immediately. Fate intervenes when a mild earthquake ruins Kotoko's family house. While the house gets rebuilt, Kotoko and her dad stay at the home of her dad's childhood friend...whose son is Naoki.

Sadly, the manga was never completed due to the unexpected death of the author in a house accident while she was moving to another house with her husband and son. With 30 million copies in print, it's so popular that it was adapted into a television drama series in Japan in 1996, two drama series in Taiwan under the name It Started with a Kiss in 2005 and 2007, a 2008 stage play, a 2008 television anime series, and a drama series in South Korea in 2010.

Scheduled for 16 episodes, “Itazura Na Kiss ~Love in Tokyo” premieres March 29th.

Source: Oricon via Anime News Network

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4 Responses
  1. Anonymous Says:

    I love Miki Honoka! So damn cute. She needs to be in the next Super Sentai.


  2. omg omg omg omg!!! I love the manga!! :D


  3. someone in Japan is taller than
    Joe!!??


  4. Anonymous Says:

    ^Marvelous was taller than Joe. Kaito was taller than Joe. A lot of guys in Japan were taller than him.


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