The cast and staff return from last year’s live-action series
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The official Instagram account for the live-action series of Riichirou Inagaki and Ryōichi Ikegami’s Trillion Game manga announced on Saturday that the manga will get a live-action film premiering in 2025. The film will feature the same cast. returning cast members, including Ren Meguro from idol group Snow Man as main character Haru Tennōji and Hayato Sano as Manabu”Gaku”Taira.
Yoshiaki Murao will return to direct the film and Daisuke Habara will return to write the script.
The 10-episode live-action series premiered on TBS and its affiliated channels on July 14. Other cast members include Kouji Kikkawa as Kazuki Kedōin and Mio Imada as Kirihime Kokuryū. Kanako Momota of idol group Momoiro Clover Z plays Akari Hirotora and Kenjiro Tsuda plays news producer Kunugi.
Netflix began streaming the series worldwide in October.
The series revolves around Haru and the carefree Haru Gaku, two men who plot to make trillions of dollars so they can buy anything they want in the world. Haru is an eloquent, persuasive, and confident speaker, which allows him to gain the love of anyone. Gaku is a clumsy but highly skilled programmer. The two were schoolmates in middle school and reunited when Gaku’s application to a banking company was rejected.
Inagaki (Eyeshield 21, Dr. Stone) and Ikegami (Crying Freeman) launched the manga in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior magazine in December 2020. The manga has sold over 1.5 million copies. The manga won the Shogakukan Award in January.
Viz Media announced earlier this month that they will release the series in English in print starting this fall.
The manga will be adapted into a television anime adaptation that will air on TBS and other channels in Japan.
Source: Live-action Trillion Game Instagram page, Oricon