published on 2025-01-15 20:06 EST by Rafael Antonio Pineda
MBS revealed on Thursday that it is producing a live-action series adjustment of Osamu Tezuka's Apollo's Song (Apollo no Uta) manga that will premiere on the “Dramaism” shows block on MBS and TBS on February 18. The live-action series will be a modern-day analysis of the 1970 dark dream story.
The series stars timelesz idol group member Shōri Satō (live-action Haruchika– Haruta & & Chika )as the lead character Shōgo Chikaishi, an university student who hates love due to a distressing youth with his mom. Akari Takaishi (The Colors Within, Infant AssassinsDemon Slayer phase play) plays Shōgo's youth good friend Hiromi Watari who imagines ending up being a vocalist while operating at a bar.
In the contemporary analysis, Shōgo deals with a female he does not enjoy and freeloads off her cash. He triggers Hiromi's death, and a goddess curses him to be born-again over and over once again and deal with unrequited love each time.
Ken Ninomiya (Chiwawa-chan, Tonkatsu DJ Agetarō live-action movies) is directing the series, and is likewise penning the scripts. The business Geek Sight is producing the series.
Kodansha USA Publishing re-released the Apollo's Song manga in 2022, and it explains the story:
Apollo's Song follows the terrible journey of Shogo, a boy whose violent youth has actually instilled in him a loathing for love so extensive he discovers himself forced to acts of violence when he is witness to any act of intimacy or love whether by human or monster. His hate is such that the gods step in, cursing Shogo to experience love throughout the ages eventually to have it ripped from his heart whenever. From the Nazi atrocities of World War II to a dystopian future of human cloning, Shogo loses his heart, in so doing, recovering the mental scars of his youth hatred.
Master writer Osamu Tezuka's Apollo's Song is a lyrical tour-de-force on the human spirit, the damage of hate, and the accomplishment of love
Tezuka released the manga in Shonengahosha's Weekly Shonen King publication in April to November 1970.
