The official website for the live-action adaptation for Hikaru Nakamura’s Saint Young Men (Saint Onii-san) manga announced on Tuesday that Ken’ichi Matsuyama (live-action Death Note, Gantz) will play Jesus and Shōta Sometani (live-action Parasyte, Bakuman.) will play Buddha.
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.
Nakamura launched the manga in Morning Two in 2006, and Kodansha shipped the manga’s 14th compiled volume last September.