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The employees for the live-action collection adaptation of Masayuki Kusumi And Jiro Taniguchi‘S Kodoku no connoisseur (Lonely Connoisseur) manga introduced on Wednesday that the collection will get a film directed and co-written by the lead actor Yutaka Matsushige on January 10. Yoshihiro Taguchi co-wrote the script.
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The movie is a part of the Kodoku no connoisseur Challenge, which celebrates the collection’ 12 years of broadcasting and TV Tokyo‘s sixtieth anniversary. The employees additionally introduced Sorezore no Kodoku no connoisseur (To Every Their Personal Solitary Connoisseur), a program that can air from October 4. The omnibus collection follows a number of predominant characters (moreover Yutaka Matsushige‘s Gorō, who was the primary character in all earlier initiatives) on their very own culinary journeys.
Each Kodoku no connoisseur live-action collection and authentic manga comply with a lone vendor named Gorō Inagashira as he travels throughout Japan, sampling native delicacies on road corners. The live-action present’s tenth season is about to premiere in October 2022.
The franchise additionally had a six-episode live-action miniseries titled Kodoku no connoisseur ~Oishii kedo Horo Nigai… Inagashira Gorō no Sainan~ (Solitary Connoisseur ~It is tasty however a bit of bitter… Gorō Inagashira’s accident~) which debuted on the i’ve ready And Hikari TV streaming companies from March to April 2022.
Masayuki Kusumi And Jiro Taniguchi first serialized the Kodoku no connoisseur manga from 1994 to 1996 in Fusosha‘S Month-to-month Panja journal (now defunct). Kusumi wrote the story and Taniguchi drew the illustrations. Fusosha printed the primary collected quantity in 1997. Kusumi and Fusosha printed the second quantity of the manga in September 2015. Taniguchi died in February 2017.
Fanfare And My Part will launch the manga in English. The corporate had stated the manga would “most likely” debut in spring 2021, however the collection has now been point out debuts on December 17, 2024.
The manga additionally impressed a web anime that debuted on Manufacturing IG‘Tate Anime’ (Vertical Anime) smartphone app in November 2017.
Sources: Lonely Connoisseur‘s X/Twitter account via Hachima Kiko, THAT Motion pictures YouTube channel