The workers for the live-action tv series of Masakazu Katsura‘s Wingman manga revealed the forged visible and 5 new forged members on Wednesday.
The newly introduced forged members are (from high left to backside proper in picture above):
- Mamoru Miyano as Kitakura-sensei
- Kurara Emi as Matsuoka-sensei
- Kōji Matoba as Seidō Hirono
- Shinobu Nakayama as Yoshiko Hirono
- Daikichi Sugawara because the Prime Minister
The collection will start airing on October 22 at 24:30 (successfully, October 23 at 12:30 a.m.) to have fun the collection’ fortieth anniversary, with new episodes each Tuesday. The collection will even run on the DMM TV service every week prior, starting on October 16. TV Tokyo and Toei Video are producing in collaboration with DMM TV.
The collection stars:
- Maito Fujioka as Kenta Hirono
- Konatsu Kato as Aoi
- Hina Kikuchi as Miku Ogawa
- Hiyori Katada as Kumiko Fuzawa
- Amane Uehara as Momoko Morimoto
- Jōtarō as Tomō Fukumoto
- Yūno Ōhara as Sakagami
- Ui Mihara as Kurotsu
- Haruki Tachibana as Tatsuo Saitō
Kōichi Sakamoto (Kamen Rider Fourze, Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, Ultraman Ginga S) is directing the collection. Yoshitatsu Yamada (live-action Video Girl Ai, He’s Expecting), Masaki Nishigaki (live-action Sayonara, Excessive College), and Yuya Nakazono (episode scripts for Bono Bono, Japan Sinks: 2020) are penning the scripts for the collection.
Rock band BLUE ENCOUNT is performing the opening theme music “chang[e].”
Wingman follows tokusatsu (particular results) nerd Kenta Hirono, a second-year center faculty scholar who goals of changing into a hero. Sooner or later, a mysterious girl named Aoi from the realm of Podreams seems earlier than him. After sketching his superhero Wingman on the lady’s Dream Pocket book, he is in a position to rework into the hero and turns into concerned in a battle between good and evil.
The collection impressed an anime adaptation in 1984.
Katsura launched the collection in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump in 1983. It ended serialization in 1985.
Lots of Katsura’s manga collection have impressed anime and live-action diversifications, together with Video Woman Ai, DNA², I’s, Wingman, and Zetman. He has additionally offered character designs for such anime as Tiger & Bunny, Iria – Zeiram the Animation, The Girl in Twilight, Double Decker! Doug & Kirill, and Garo: Crimson Moon.
Supply: Press launch
