The actor won the “Asian Excellence Award” for his role in the horror series
Actor Yuya Yagira won the Asian Excellence Award at the Asian Content Awards & Global OTT Awards in Busan, South Korea on Sunday for his role in the live-action adaptation of horror manga Gannibal by Masaaki Ninomiya.
The live-action series premiered in December 2022 and aired seven episodes. Disney+ and Hulu are streaming the show worldwide. According to entertainment news website Variety, Disney+ said it was the most-watched domestically produced original series on Disney+ Japan based on hours streamed.
The series will have a second season with returning cast and crew.
Image courtesy of Ablaze Publishing Ablaze Publishing has licensed the manga and plans to release the manga’s first volume in North America in November and the second volume in February 2024.
Ablaze describes the story:
In GANNIBAL, Daigo Agawa is a resident police officer recently assigned to the remote mountain village of Kuge. At first he was warmly welcomed by the villagers, but with the suspicious death of an old woman, he gradually realized the abnormality of the village and began to suspect that “The people in this village are eating people. ”
Ninomiya launched the manga in Nihonbungeisha’s Weekly Manga Goraku magazine in October 2018 and ended it in November 2021. The manga’s 13th and final compiled book volume was published in Japan in February 2022.
Source: Variety (Patrick Frater)