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Motokare Mania Live-Action Series Casts EXILE's Mandy Sekiguchi
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the live-action television EXILE music group will star in the show as Tadafumi Shirai (character name romanization not official), Yurika's timid and irresponsible colleague at the Chilorian real estate company.
The series will premiere on Fuji TV in October.
The previously revealed cast includes Kenta Hamano (left) as Fumio Yamashita.
Other cast include (from left to right in image above, character name romanizations are not official):
- Shinya Kote as Ichirō Andō, the president of the Chilorian real estate company where Yurika and Saitō work
- Yamaguchi Sayaka as Sakura Marunouchi, the author of the novel that Yurika loves to read
- Minami Tanaka as Mugi "Mugi-chan" Kurusu, a radio personality at a Hokkaido community radio station
Other cast include:
- Kanro Morita as Shō Ōzawa, a colleague of Yurika and Saitō
- Daichi as Kōji Arata, Sakura's editor
- Toranosuke Katō as Takashi Masuda, the bartender of "Bar Nekome," a bar that Yurika frequents
- Shōta Inoue as Yasushi Kondō, a part-time worker at "Bar Nekome"
- Yoshiko as Hiromi Suō, a manicurist
Michiko Namiki is directing the series, and Hanae Nakamura are composing the music.
The manga centers on Yurika, whose thoughts keep drifting back to her ex-boyfriend "Makochi" Makoto — causing her current relationships to not go too well.
Takinami Kiss magazine in June 2017. Kodansha published the manga's third compiled book volume on July 12.
Takinami's four- comedy manga anime that premiered on January 8 and featured a different director and voice actress for the main character in every episode.
Sources: Motokare Mania live-action series website, Comic Natalie
