is a Japanese
comedy
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Origins
Comedy originated in ancient Greec ...
romance
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Common meanings
* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
** Romantic orientation, the classification of the sex or gender with which a pers ...
''
shōjo''
manga
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series written and illustrated by Rin Mikimoto. It was adapted into a
Japanese television drama
, also called or J-drama, are television programs that are a staple of Television in Japan, Japanese television and are broadcast daily.
Format
All major Television networks, TV networks in Japan produce a variety of Drama (genre), drama serie ...
that aired on
Nippon Television
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from July 19 to October 11, 2014 and into a
live action
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film that was released on October 11, 2014, in Japan.
Characters
* Haruka Sakurai (
Tomohisa Yamashita
, also widely known as , or Tomo, is a Japanese singer, actor, and TV host.
Yamashita joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates as a trainee in 1996 and made his small acting debut for NHK's ''Shonentachi'' (1998). He made his musi ...
)
* Yuni Kururugi (
Nana Komatsu
is a Japanese actress and model. She is best known for her roles in '' The World of Kanako'', ''Destruction Babies'', '' Drowning Love'', '' The Black Devil and the White Prince'', ''My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday'', '' After the Rain'', ''Farewel ...
)
* Ikuhaba (
Nozomu Kotaki)
* Kikuko Nanami (
Mizuki Yamamoto
is a Japanese actress and model.
Career
Yamamoto was born in Fukuoka Prefecture. She started her career as an exclusive model for the women's fashion magazine CanCam in 2009. Two years later, she made her acting debut in the Fuji TV drama ''Sh ...
)
* Mirei Takizawa (
Asami Mizukawa
is a Japanese actress.
She made her debut in 1996 at age 13 in an advertisement for Asahi Kasei's "Hebel Haus". In 2000, she won the ''Grand Prix'' at the “3rd Miss Tokyo Walker” competition (the first winner was Chiaki Kuriyama) and gained ...
)
* Akachi (
Hirofumi Arai
Park Kyung-bae (born January 18, 1979), professionally known by his Japanese alias is a Zainichi South Korean former actor.
Career
Arai made his screen debut in Isao Yukisada's '' Go'' in 2001 when he was 22 years old. His next film role was ...
)
Film adaptation
A film adaptation was released in 2014. The film has been
number one at the Japanese box office for two weeks and has grossed
¥475 million.
See also
*''
Kyō no Kira-kun
is a Japanese shōjo manga, shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Rin Mikimoto. It is published by Kodansha on ''Bessatsu Friend''. The first volume was published on 13 January 2012. A live-action adaptation was released on February 2 ...
'', another manga series by the same author
References
External links
Television drama official website
Shōjo manga
Kodansha manga
Manga adapted into films
2014 Japanese television series debuts
2014 Japanese television series endings
Nippon Television dramas
Comedy anime and manga
Romance anime and manga
Manga adapted into television series
2010s Japanese films
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