BS TV Tokyo announced on Saturday that the live-action series based on Chie Shinkyū's Wakako-zake manga will get an eighth season and will premiere on BS TV Tokyo and BS TV Tokyo 4K at 11:00 p.m. on May 8. 1 (effective January). 9 at 12 a.m.). The show will stream on Lemino Premium.
Rina Takeda will again star in the film.
Image via X of live-action Wakako-zake show/Twitter account
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Directors this season include Shinji Kuma, Shōhei Wakabayashi and Tarō Kubota. The script writers include Kumiko Asō, Momoka Meriyama and Shōhei Wakabayashi.
The food manga Wakako-zake is about 26-year-old Wakako, who drinks various alcoholic drinks at bars and restaurants every night in search of where she belongs.
Shinkyū began the manga in Coamix's Monthly Comic Zenon magazine in 2011. Media Do released the manga's first volume digitally in English in several platform magazines in October 2018. The manga inspired a 12-episode 3-minute anime short series, starring Miyuki Sawashiro, that premiered in July 2015. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.
The first 12-episode live-action television series based on the manga aired in January–March 2015, and the second and third 12-episode seasons premiered in January–April 2016 and January, respectively. April 2017. The fourth season premiered in January 2019 and the fifth season premiered in April 2020 and aired for 12 episodes. The series had its first special in December 2020. The sixth premiered in January 2022 and the seventh premiered in July 2023.
Source: BS TV Tokyo, Natalie Comics
