WOWOW announced on Sunday that Io Sakisaka‘s Strobe Edge manga is getting a live-action series adaptation that will air and stream on WOWOW starting this fall. The show will have two seasons.
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The series will star Riko Fukumoto and Kyohei Takahashi. The series is reuniting the staff of WOWOW‘s previous live-action series adaptation of Sakisaka’s Blue Spring Ride (Ao Haru Ride) manga that premiered as two seasons in September 2023 and January 2024. Masato Kimura and Yūsuke Matsuda are again directing the Strobe Edge series, and Sayaka Kuwamura is again penning the script.
Strobe Edge previously inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan in March 2015. Sōta Fukushi and Kasumi Arimura starred in the film.
Viz Media published the 10-volume manga in English, and it describes the story.
What is love, anyway? Ninako Kinoshita’s friends tell her it’s one thing, but Ninako wonders what this mysterious feeling really is. When she meets Ren Ichinose, a handsome, enigmatic guy who all the girls worship, her life takes an unexpected turn. With just a few words and a smile, he changes her world…
Sakisaka launched the manga in Shueisha‘s Bessatsu Margaret magazine in 2007, and ended it in 2010.
Viz Media has also released Sakisaka’s Blue Spring Ride; Sakura, Saku!; and Love Me, Love Me Not manga in English.
Sources: WOWOW, Comic Natalie