Hayate Ichinose Joins Live-Action Blue Flower, Forest of Vessels as Male Lead
The adaptation of Yūki Kodama’s manga will premiere this fall in NHK’s “Yorudora” programming block.
NHK announced Tuesday that Hayate Ichinose will play Tatsuki Manabe in its live-action Blue Flower, Forest of Vessels series. Rena Matsui will also star.
NHK announced Tuesday that Hayate Ichinose (Kishiryū Sentai Ryusoulger) will play male lead Tatsuki Manabe in its live-action Blue Flower, Forest of Vessels (Ao no Hana Utsuwa no Mori) series.
The adaptation of Yūki Kodama’s manga premieres this fall in NHK’s “Yorudora” programming block. Rena Matsui (Ultimate Otaku Teacher), formerly an idol with SKE48 and Nogizaka46, will star.
Set in Hasami, a Nagasaki prefecture town known for pottery, the manga follows ceramics painter Aoko. Its story centers on her romance with Tatsuki, a young man who visits her studio.
The manga ran in Shogakukan’s Flowers magazine from March 2018 to March 2022. Shogakukan released its 10th and final collected volume in August 2022.
Kodama’s other manga include:
- Tsukikage Baby.
- Chiisako no Niwa.
- Kids on the Slope (Sakamichi no Apollon), a nine-volume series that began in Flowers in 2007 and ended in March 2012.
- Sakamichi no Apollon: Bonus Track, a single-volume spinoff published by Shogakukan in November 2012.
- Wolf’s Daughter: A Werewolf’s Tale (Ōkami no Musume), which launched in Flowers in October 2022 and remains ongoing.
Kids on the Slope received a television anime adaptation that debuted in April 2012 in Fuji TV’s late-night Noitamina block. Crunchyroll streamed it as it aired under the title Kids on the Slope. Sentai Filmworks released it on home video in 2013.
A live-action film adaptation of Kids on the Slope opened in Japan in March 2018.
Shogakukan published the 10th volume of Wolf’s Daughter: A Werewolf’s Tale on April 10. Seven Seas publishes the manga in English and released its third volume on April 14.
