NHK announced the live-action series adaptation of Shion Miura’s Fune o Amu (The Great Passage) novel series, titled Fune o Amu ~Watashi, Jisho Tsukurimasu~ (The Great Passage ~I Will Make a Dictionary~) on Tuesday.
The 10-episode series stars Yōjirō Noda as the protagonist Mitsuya Majime, who was recruited to a publishing company’s dictionary editorial department due to his love of words and reading, and Elaiza Ikeda as Midori Kishibe, who was transferred from a fashion magazine’s editorial department to the dictionary editorial department.
The story follows “the awkward humans” Majime and Masashi as they work together to compile a medium-sized Japanese dictionary titled “The Great Passage” (Daitokai).
The series will air on the NHK BS and BS Premium 4K channels on February 18 at 10:49 p.m. JST.