This year’s 35th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed more details on Monday about the live-action film adaptation of ShÅ«ichi AsÅ’s Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan manga The film will star Kento Yamazaki (live-action Orange, Your Lie in April, One Week Friends films, live-action Death Note television series) as the titular character Kusuo Saiki, and YÅ«ichi Fukuda (live-action HK/Hentai Kamen, Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store, Gintama) is directing the film.
AsÅ launched the manga series in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2012 after drawing one-shot versions of the story in Weekly Shonen Jump and Jump Next! magazines in 2011.
The manga inspired an ongoing anime series that started airing within the Oha-Suta (“Good Morning Star”) program on July 4.
Shueisha originally announced the live-action film adaptation in June 2015, but hadn’t revealed more details about the project until now.