Osamu Tezuka's The Shinsen-gumi Manga Gets Live-Action Show

TV Asahi announced on Tuesday that it is producing a live-action series adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s The Shinsen-gumi manga with the title Kimi to Yukite Saku ~ Shinsen-gumi Seishun Roku~ (With You I Bloom ~The Shinsen-gumi Youth Chronicle~).

The series will air within TV Asahi’s “Super Bara Bara Daisakusen” programming block.

In his quest for justice, he answers the recruitment call of The Shinsen-gumi (or “The new squad”) a newly-formed special brigade of samurai loyal to the shogun.