The official Twitter account for Zero Ikkakusenkin Game (Zero: Get Rich Quick Game), the live-action television series based on Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s Tobaku Haōden Zero gambling manga, revealed on Thursday that the staff will cast one of nine members of the Johnny’s Jr. male idol group for the role of Shirube, Zero’s rival.
The program will involve the Johnny’s Jr. members making a remake of four episodes from the Nekketsu Renai Dō series, and one episode from the Kowai Nichiyōbi series.
Both 1999 series starred Johnny’s Jr. members at the time.
The role will be chosen through an audition that will be shown in a four-episode program titled Jr. Senbatsu!