The staff for Tomodachi Game R4, a new live-action television drama based on Yuki Sato’s Tomodachi Game (Friends Games) manga, announced on Wednesday that boy band Sexy Zone’s Fuma Kikuchi will play an original character Novel Himuro.
The first film, Tomodachi Game Gekijōban, opened in June 2017 after the live-action television drama series premiered in April 2017.
The manga has inspired a previous live-action drama series and two live-action films.
Novel, a newcomer to the Tomodachi Game management team, will “hold the key” to the show’s whole story, and he appears to have a past connection with the protagonist Yūichi.