Jotei Manga Returns to Live-Action TV With Nagisa Saitō in Lead Role
The adaptation premieres October 22 in YTV’s late-night Drama DiVE block.
Ryō Kurashina and Issaku Wake’s Jotei Super Queen manga is getting a new live-action television series starring Nagisa Saitō as Ayaka Tachibana.
A new live-action television adaptation of Ryō Kurashina and Issaku Wake’s Jotei Super Queen manga will debut October 22. It will air in YTV’s late-night “Drama DiVE” programming block.
Nagisa Saitō will play the central character, Ayaka Tachibana. Her credits include Himitsu no AiPri: Ring-hen, the live-action Oshi no Ko, and Tomorrow, I Will Be Someone’s Girlfriend.
The story follows Ayaka after she loses her single mother to cancer. She sets out to become the “Empress of Ginza,” climbing through the hostess clubs of the upscale Tokyo district.
The original Jotei manga has received several earlier adaptations:
- A 2001 live-action film starring Maju Osawa.
- A 2007 live-action television series starring Rosa Katō.
- A 2011 live-action South Korean series.
- A 2018 stage play.
The Jotei Kaoruko spinoff also received a live-action television adaptation in 2010.
Kurashina wrote and Wake illustrated the original manga, which ran in Houbunsha’s Weekly Manga Times from 1996 to 2001. Their subsequent spinoffs and Kurashina’s later collaborations include:
- Jotei Hana Mai (2002), by Kurashina and Wake.
- Jotei Kaoruko (2007), by Kurashina and Wake.
- Jotei Neo Miki (2009), with artist Tsuyoshi Adachi.
- Jotei Yuna (2011), with artist Azusa Kurokawa.
Kurashina’s other manga have also reached live-action television:
- Jō-ō Virgin inspired three series between 2005 and 2010.
- Yaoh received a series adaptation in 2006.
- Teiō became a series in 2009.
Writing under the pen name Kei Tsukasa, Kurashina also created Kentoshi. The manga received a three-part original video anime adaptation in 1990.
Sources: Comic Natalie via ANN
