NHK began streaming a trailer on Friday for its three-episode live-action mini-series adaptation of Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai), Hirohiko Araki’s spinoff manga for his JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga.
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan is a series of Hirohiko Araki’s manga one-shots starring his JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable character Rohan Kishibe, who is also Araki’s fictional alter ego.
The anime studio David Production adapted two previous Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan stories as original anime DVDs.
Kazutaka Watanabe (Only Yesterday live-action special) is directing the series, with scripts by JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime writer Yasuko Kobayashi.