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TV Asahi announced on Tuesday that it is producing a live-action series adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s The Shinsen-gumi manga titled Kimi to Yukite Saku ~ Shinsen-gumi Seishun Roku~ (With You I Bloom ~The Shinsen-gumi Youth Chronicle~). The drama will be broadcast in TV Asahi’s “Super Bara Bara Daisakusen” programming block.
Hayato Kawai (live-action My Love Story!!, Nisekoi, Kaguya-sama: Love is War movies) is directing the film, while Fumi Tsubota (Hugtto! Precure, Waccha PriMagi!, Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom) is writing script. Filming is taking place at Toei Studios Kyoto and the production is currently conducting auditions for one of Kyujuro and Daisaku’s companions in the main cast.
Digital Manga Guild published The Shinsen-gumi in English digitally, and it describes the manga:
In Kyoto, in the late 1800s, the son of a local bookbinder, Kyujuro Fukakusa witnesses his father murdered before his eyes and vows revenge. In his quest for justice, he responds to the recruitment call of The Shinsen-gumi (or “New Squad”), a newly formed special samurai brigade loyal to the shogun. There, he meets his comrade and skilled swordsman, the mysterious Daisuke Kamakiri.
Despite their difference in combat skill levels, the two form a close bond, but can they survive the tumultuous times that are coming to them in”The Wolves of Mibu?”
Tezuka published the manga in Shueisha’s Shonen Book in 1963. The manga inspired a kabuki play in August 2022.
Source: Natalie Comics