The workers for the live-action tv collection of Masakazu Katsura‘S Wingman manga revealed key visible components and 7 different solid members on Wednesday.
The newly introduced solid members are (from high left to backside proper within the picture above):
- Hina Kikuchi as Miku Ogawa
- Hiyori Katada as Kumiko Fuzawa
- Amane Uehara as Momoko Morimoto
- Jotarō as Tomō Fukumoto
- Yūno Ōhara as Sakagami
- Ui Mihara as Kurotsu
- Haruki Tachibana as Tatsuo Saito
The collection stars Maito Fujioka (stay motion Take it simple, boys) as Kenta Hirono and Konatsu Kato (stay motion Is) as Aoi.
Koichi Sakamoto (Camen Rider 4, Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, Ultraman Ginga S) directs the collection. Yoshitatsu Yamada (stay motion Video lady Ai, He expects), Masaki Nishigaki (stay motion Sayonara, highschool), And Yuya Nakazono (episode scripts for Bon Bono, Japan Sinking: 2020) write the scripts for the collection.
Rock band BLUE COUNT sings the opening theme music “chang(e).”
The collection will start airing on October 22 at 12:30 a.m. (successfully, October 23 at 12:30 a.m.) to rejoice the collection’ fortieth anniversary, with new episodes airing each Tuesday. The collection can even air on the DMM-TV service one week earlier, beginning on October 16. TV Tokyo And Bye Video is produced in collaboration with DMM-TV.
Wingman follows tokusatsu (particular results) nerd Kenta Hirono, a second-year highschool scholar who desires of changing into a hero. Sooner or later, a mysterious girl named Aoi from the realm of Podreams seems earlier than him. After he loses his superhero Wingman within the girl’s Dream Pocket book, he can remodel right into a hero and turn 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 Leap in 1983. Serialization ceased in 1985.
Lots of Katsura’s manga collection have impressed anime and live-action diversifications, together with Video lady Ai, DNA², Is, WingmanAnd ZetmanHe has additionally created character designs for anime comparable to Tiger & Rabbit, Iria – Zeiram the animation, The lady within the twilight, Double Decker! Doug & KirillAnd Garo: Crimson Moon.
Supply: Press launch