Wakako-zake Returns for Season 10 With Episodes Filmed on Australia’s Gold Coast
Rina Takeda will reprise her starring role when the live-action series returns to BS TV Tokyo next January.
BS TV Tokyo announced a 10th season of Wakako-zake. Its first two episodes were filmed at an Australian beach resort, marking the series’ first overseas setting and shoot.
BS TV Tokyo announced Monday that its live-action adaptation of Chie Shinkyū’s Wakako-zake manga will return for a 10th season next January. Rina Takeda will return as the lead.
The season marks the series’ first episodes set and filmed overseas. Production shot the opening two episodes at a beach resort on Australia’s Gold Coast, working with:
- Tourism Australia
- Tourism and Events Queensland
- Experience Gold Coast
- Qantas airline
The live-action series began with a 12-episode season that aired from January through March 2015. Its subsequent seasons and first special followed this schedule:
- Season 2: premiered in January 2016, with 12 episodes.
- Season 3: premiered in April 2017, with 12 episodes.
- Season 4: premiered in January 2019.
- Season 5: premiered in April 2020 and ran for 12 episodes.
- First special: aired in December 2020.
- Season 6: premiered in January 2022.
- Season 7: premiered in July 2023.
- Season 8: premiered on January 8, 2025.
- Season 9: premiered on October 1, 2025.
The food-focused manga centers on Wakako, a 26-year-old who visits bars and restaurants alone each night. She samples different alcoholic drinks while seeking a place where she belongs.
The manga also inspired 12 three-minute anime shorts starring Miyuki Sawashiro. The series premiered in July 2015, and Crunchyroll streamed it as it aired.
Shinkyū launched the manga in Coamix’s Monthly Comic Zenon magazine in 2011. Media Do published its first volume digitally in English across several platforms in October 2018.
Sources: BS TV Tokyo via ANN
