The live-action television series resets the timeframe to modern-day 2018, and it centers around Yōta’s nephew, high school student Shō Moteuchi (Nomura).
Another of Katsura’s Weekly Shonen Jump high school romances, I”s, is also inspiring a live-action television series next year.
The series will premiere on TV Tokyo and its affiliates on January 13, but episodes will stream one week early on Amazon Prime Video in Japan.
Shigeyuki Totsugi as Yōta Moteuchi, the original manga’s protagonist, now a 42-year-old picture book illustrator who travels all over Japan.