Non, Kis-My-Ft2's Taisuke Fujigaya stars in the winter show about a woman who accidentally starts a job as an assassin

DMM announced on Tuesday that it is producing a live-action series adaptation of Toshiya Wakabayashi's Happy Kanako's Killer Life (Shiawase Kanako no Koroshiya Seikatsu) that will premiere on the DMM TV streaming service in the winter. upcoming.

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Non (on the left in the images above) plays Kanako, a girl who accidentally becomes an assassin and realizes that she has a talent for it. Boy band Kis-My-Ft2 member Taisuke Fujigaya (right) plays Sakurai, Kanako's assassin advisor and partner who worries about her.

Tsutomu Hanabusa (live-action Tokyo Revengers) will direct the film.

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© Toshiya Wakabayashi, Seikaisha, Seven Seas Entertainment

Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga in English and describes the story:

Nishino Kanako definitely hates her job and is only too happy to get the first part of the new gig coming her way. She never expected that her interview would take place at an agency for contract killers… or that she's actually good at taking people down! Kanako doesn't have a lot of confidence, and adjusting to her new life as an assassin isn't the easiest. Will she earn the respect of Sakurai, her tough but rather hot new co-worker? Find out in this colorful, dangerous-looking manga!

Wakabayashi launched the four-panel webcomic on Twitter and his pixivFANBOX account, and Seikaisha posted the manga on his Twi4 service. Seikaisha published the manga's seventh compiled book volume in March 2023. Seven Seas Entertainment released the manga's seventh compiled book volume on April 30.

Wakabayashi's Tsuredure Children manga chronicles a series of short school romance stories in episodic form. Wakabayashi launched the manga online in October 2012, then began serializing the manga with new content in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2015. The manga ended in July 2018. Home Publishing Kodansha USA released the manga digitally in English. The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in July 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series with English subtitles as it aired, and Funimation streamed the English dub.

Source: Natalie Comics