Atsuko Nanba's Shoujo Manga "Senpai to Kanojo" Gets Live-Action Film

Atsuko Nanba’s Shoujo Manga “Senpai to Kanojo” Gets Live-Action Film

It is officially confirmed that a live-action film adaptation of Atsuko Nanba’s 2004-2005 shoujo mangaSenpai to Kanojo (Senior and Girlfriend) is in the works for a fall 2015 release. The one-sided love-themed manga was serialized in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Friend from its September 2004 to April 2005 issue, then compiled in two tankobon volumes. Though it has only two, the series has had over 1 million copies in print.

 

18-year-old Kyoko Yoshine plays the protagonist Rika Tsuzuki, who falls in love with her senior third year student Keigo Minohara (Jun Shizon, known as Right Suzuki/ToQ #1 in Ressha Sentai ToQger), when she enters high school in April. But he still loves a graduate named Aoi Okita (Riria)….

 

35-year-old Chihiro Ikeda, who made her directorial debut with the Hidetoshi Nishijima-starring Tounan

Kadobeya Nikai no Onna in 2008, directs the adaptation on screenplay by Kiyoto Wada.

 

 

The covers of the tankobons

Atsuko Nanba's Shoujo Manga

 

 

Live-action film main visual

Atsuko Nanba's Shoujo Manga

 

Kyoko Yoshine’s announcement on Twitter

 

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