New images also released
The official website for the live-action film adaptation of Hatsuharu's A Girl & Her Guard Dog (Ojō to Banken-kun) manga revealed a key visual and a March 14, 2025 release date on Wednesday.
Image via X/Twitter account of the live-action film A Girl and Her Guard Dog
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The film stars Riko Fukumoto as Isaku and SixTONES idol group member Jesse as Keiya.
Keiichi Kobayashi will direct the film. Yо̄suke Masaike is writing the script. Yurika Koike is producing. TOHO is distributing the film.
Publisher Kodansha USA is releasing the A Girl & Her Guard Dog manga in English digitally and describes the series:
Isaku never asked to be the daughter of a yakuza boss, but when her parents died in a car accident when she was 5, her gangster grandfather took her in and raised her as a member of the clan. After years of being shunned by her schoolmates because of her family ties, Isaku is finally ready to make her high school debut, live a normal life, and maybe even find love…until the family's loyal servant and Isaku's devoted guardian, 26-year-old Keiya, enters high school right next door and vows to protect her from all of the above! Now she has to deal with a cigarette-smoking, pistol-wielding knight in armor (?) and navigate high school? What's a young girl to do?!
Hatsuharu launched the manga in Bessatsu Friend in December 2018. Kodansha published the manga's ninth compiled volume in Japan in September 2023. The series went on hiatus in December. The series went on hiatus again on April 12 to prepare for the manga's “second year arc” as well as due to the author's poor health. The magazine will announce the manga's return date once the author has recovered.
Kodansha USA released the manga's ninth volume digitally on February 20. The company also publishes Hatsuharu's Can I Kiss You Every Day? manga in English.
The manga inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered in September 2023 and ran for 13 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.
Source: website, Comic Natalie
