TOKYO23 Getting a Drama
Takeshi Arashida and Eiji Hashimoto’s manga series TOKYO23 is getting a five episode live action television series adaptation. “Tokyo23: Survival City” will star 20 year old actor Yuya Yagira and air on the WOWOW network beginning at midnight on September 4.
The manga story revolves around a shadowy “X Game” played in Tokyo’s 23 wards. Game participants who manage to continue wearing a special bracelet until the end of the game may win 100 million yen. Players that lose their bracelet end up dead.
Source: Tokyograph
July 20th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
[...] Takeshi Arashida and Eiji Hashimoto penned a rather brilliant manga called TOKYO23 (named after the 23 wards of Tokyo) in which characters participate in an event called the X Game and fight to win 100 million yen or end up dead if they lose the special bracelets they are wearing. I couldn’t help but be distinctly reminded of the Square-Enix DS game The World Ends With You when I first heard the story, but TOKYO23 plays out very much in its own unique way. I would have said that that storyline sounds like an ideal live-action adaption, but I don’t even have to, because it seems one is already in the works, Starring young actor Yuya Yagira ( Nobody Knows) and slated to air on the WOWOW network starting September 4th, it sounds like it could be really good if done right. We shall see… [Via AnimeNation] [...]
July 21st, 2010 at 10:39 am
[...] Takeshi Arashida and Eiji Hashimoto penned a rather brilliant manga called TOKYO23 (named after the 23 wards of Tokyo) in which characters participate in an event called the X Game and fight to win 100 million yen or end up dead if they lose the special bracelets they are wearing. I couldn’t help but be distinctly reminded of the Square-Enix DS game The World Ends With You when I first heard the story, but TOKYO23 plays out very much in its own unique way. I would have said that that storyline sounds like an ideal live-action adaption, but I don’t even have to, because it seems one is already in the works, Starring young actor Yuya Yagira ( Nobody Knows) and slated to air on the WOWOW network starting September 4th, it sounds like it could be really good if done right. We shall see… [Via AnimeNation] [...]