The YouTube channel for the Piccoma TV streaming service began streaming the first six-minute episode on Tuesday for the live-action adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura’s Saint Young Men (Saint Oniisan) manga.
The project also has a special two-week limited screening in more than 40 AEON theaters in Japan that started on October 12.
The manga imagines if Buddha and Jesus shared a low-rent Tokyo apartment.
The manga’s eighth and ninth volumes both bundled original anime DVDs when they shipped in December 2012 and July 2013, respectively.