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The Kindaichi Case Files Detective Manga Gets New Live-Action Show Starring Naniwa Danshi's Shunsuke Michieda
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Naniwa Danshi band member Shunsuke Michieda is the fifth actor to play the titular detective Hajime Kindaichi, and this will be his first solo starring role in a live-action series. The new series will adapt selected cases and set them in modern-day Japan.
The Kindaichi Case Files manga centers around a high school boy named Hajime Kindaichi who usually seems dull. However, when there is a case, he demonstrates an IQ of over 180 and remarkable deductive skills inherited from his famous detective grandfather. He solves crimes with his childhood friend Miyuki Nanase and Inspector Isamu Kenmochi.
Office Crescendo. The series will air on NTV on Sundays at 10:30 p.m.
Amagi and Sato launched the original manga in 1992, and OVA) projects, and a television anime series.
The four previous actors who played Kindaichi in live-action are Ryōsuke Yamada from 2013 to 2014.
Amagi and Sato launched the Weekly Shōnen Magazine in March 2012, and ended the manga in October 2017. The follow-up manga itself also inspired two television anime series.
Sato also drew the The File of Young Kindaichi Returns: The File of Inspector Akechi in December 2015.
Amagi and Sato Evening magazine did not announce when the manga will return.
Sato launched a new manga spinoff titled Kinnyaichi Shonen no Jikenbo in Evening this month. The four- comedy manga stars the titular character turned into a cat.
Under various pen names, Amagi has drafted the stories for Bloody Monday.
Update: Ren Meguro in the My Love Mix-Up! series.) Thanks, Neverwhere.
Sources: The Kindaichi Case Files' website, Comic Natalie
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