It’s a big year for the Love Live! franchise, and it keeps getting bigger! Along with this year’s Nijigasaki movie and the third season of Love Live! Superstar!, the franchise now welcomes its first live-action adaptation. The premiere date for the Love Live! School Idol Musical the DRAMA is November 21 via MBS.
The live-action TV drama is based on the 2022 School Idol Musical, which centers on the idol activities of the Takizakura Girls’ Academy and the Tsubakisakuhana Girls’ High. Hiroto Tozuka and Keijiro Tsubakimoto (Haiiro no Otome, Yakuza Lover) will direct the Love Live! School Idol Musical the DRAMA. Hajime Yatate credits the original story, while Sakurako Kimino contributes the original idea. Noriyoshi Kishimoto handles the live-action screenplay, and Yuki Wakabayashi oversees planning and production. The cast for the show includes:
- Airi Yamamoto as Sayaka Harukaze
- Akari Yura as Maaya Mikasa
- Ayaka Yasumoto as Misuzu Wakatsuki
- Julia An as Yukino Hojo
- Miho Watanabe as Rurika Tsubaki
- Mizuki Yamauchi as Hikaru Amakusa
- Nanaka Tomita as Anzu Takizawa
- Nanami Asai as Yuzuha Sumeragi
- Rina as Rena Suzuka
- Yuna Nakamura as Toa Kurusu
Bottom left Yura Shugo (Maya Mikasa) – Bottom right Watanabe Miho (Tsubaki Rurika)
Love Live! School Idol Musical tells the story of the Takizakura Girls’ Academy in Osaka and the Tsubakisakuhana Girls’ High School in Hyogo. When the daughters of the two school presidents meet through idol activities, they discover a world they never thought possible. And through those idol activities, the girls work towards a new and exciting dream! The musical stage cast includes:
- Ibuki Mita as Rena Suzuka
- Julia An as Yukino Hojo
- Marina Horiuchi as Rurika Tsubaki
- Nanami Asai as Yuzuha Sumeragi
- Minami Sato as Maya Misaka
- Mizuki Nishiba as Misuzu Wakatsuki
- Rina Koyama as Hikaru Amakusa
- Ruri Aoyama as Sayaka Harukaze
- Sana Hoshimori as Toa Kurusu
- Sayaka Okamura as Kyoka Takizawa
- Yuki Aono as Madoka Tsubaki
- Yuuna Sekine as Anzu Takizaw
Source: Comic Natalie
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