NHK announced on Monday that Fumiyo Kouno’s Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Yūnagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni) manga will get a live-action series adaptation this summer.
As before, the “Country of Cherry Blossoms” story will focus on Nanami Ishikawa, who is working as an editor in a publishing company.
The manga previously inspired a live-action film in 2007.
The original 2003-2004 manga won the Grand Prize at the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize’s Shinsei Award in 2005.