The third and final season of its live-action television adaptation of Nahoko Uehashi’s Moribito novel series will premiere on NHK on November 25.
Asahi Shimbun Publications’ Nemuki+ magazine is serializing a manga adaptation of the novel series’ second book titled Yami no Moribito (Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness) by manga creator Yu.
The show is adapting all 10 of Uehashi’s novels, and the whole drama is shot in 4K.
Uehashi’s novel series centers on a traveling spear-wielding bodyguard named Balsa who has sworn to save the lives of eight people to atone for a past sin.