Fuji TV’s Live-Action Aquaman Drama Sets December 25 Debut in Japan and South Korea

Kakao Entertainment announced Thursday that Fuji TV is adapting McQueen Studio’s Korean romance webtoon Aquaman into a Japanese live-action series.

The 10-episode drama premieres simultaneously in Japan and South Korea on December 25. It will stream through Fuji TV’s streaming service in Japan and Wavve, a Korean streaming platform, in South Korea.

New episodes will premiere every Friday after the debut. A North American release has not yet been confirmed.

The main cast includes:

• Haru Kashiwagi as Naru Shintani, based on the webtoon’s Naru Shin.
• Noritaka Hamao as Kazunari Ikeda, adapted from Sung-joon Choi.
• Karen Ōtomo as Sora Hoshino, based on Sora Choi.

Junichi Kanai directs the series, and Erika Seki writes the screenplay.

Kakao Entertainment and Fuji TV are jointly adapting the webtoon. Kakao Entertainment supplied the original intellectual property and participated in planning and development. Fuji TV handles Japanese production with production company AOI Pro.

The original webtoon ran from 2016 to 2019, recording approximately 200 million cumulative views on Kakao Page. It follows longtime friends whose relationship grows complicated as the boundaries between friendship and romance blur.

The now-defunct service Spottoon previously released the webtoon in English. Its story description follows twenty-something Naru through the confusing world of modern dating.

That includes familiar dilemmas, such as whether to add a smiley face to a text or why someone has not replied. Naru has never dated, does not use a cellphone, and has someone trying to sabotage his dating life.

An official English version of the webtoon is currently unavailable.