A live-action film adaptation of Rikako Akiyoshi’s Ankoku Joshi (Girls in the Dark) horror mystery novel has been green-lit, with anime screenwriter Mari Okada penning the script as her first live-action project.
Okada has written and overseen scripts for such anime as anohana, Toradora!, A Lull in the Sea, and Hana-Saku Iroha.
Rumors begin to circulate that the members of the literature club that Itsumi supervised were responsible for her death.
Akiyoshi initially serialized the story in Futabasha’s Shōsetsu Suiri magazine and Futabasha published the story in a novel in June 2013.