"Mob Psycho 100" Live-Action Drama Reveals Main Visual for January 2018 Premiere
TV Tokyo’s official website for the upcoming live-action TV drama based on ONE (One-Punch Man)’s Mob Psycho 100 action comedy manga posted a main visual introducing its three main cast: Tatsuomi Hamada (17) as the protagonist Shigeo Kageyama, Kazuki Namioka (39) as his master Arataka Reigen, and Yuuki Yoda (17/Nogizaka46 member) as his childhood friend and love interest Tsubomi Takane.
Hamada is best known as Riku Asakura/Ultraman Geed in the latest Ultraman TV series Ultraman Geed (2017-), Namioka played Shishimaru in Lion-Maru G (2006) and Sid/Kamen Rider Sigurd in Kamen Rider Gaim (2013-2014), and this is Yoda’s first acting role in a drama.
The manga author ONE posted a comment: “I am so happy that it becomes a live-action drama! I am already so excited because I think we will be able to see a new Mob Psycho that is different from
the manga or anime.”
Main Visual
モブ&メインビジュアル大公開#モブサイコ100#濱田龍臣 #波岡一喜 #与田祐希#木ドラ25 pic.twitter.com/H3tmJPkf3v
— 木ドラ25「モブサイコ100」 (@mobpsycho_drama) 2017年11月22日
Kazuki Namioka as Arataka Reigen
ドラマ「モブサイコ100」…お待たせしましたキャスト情報第二弾発表です‼️
モブの師匠・霊幻新隆役に #波岡一喜 さんが決まりました‼️#モブサイコ100#テレ東 #BSジャパン #Netflix pic.twitter.com/kmEpm9xd1o
— 木ドラ25「モブサイコ100」 (@mobpsycho_drama) 2017年11月22日
Yuuki Yoda as Tsubomi Takane
さらに
モブの幼馴染・高嶺ツボミ役に #与田祐希 さんが決定‼️#モブサイコ100#乃木坂46#テレ東 #BSジャパン #Netflix pic.twitter.com/W6Zs7S1eJD
— 木ドラ25「モブサイコ100」 (@mobpsycho_drama) 2017年11月22日
The Mob Psycho 100 TV drama is the station’s fourth collaboration title with Netflix for its Thursday midnight
block “Mokudora 25” that has been airing at 25:00 every Thursday. 47-year-old internationally acclaimed
action/tokusatsu director Koichi Sakamoto (Power Rangers, Heisei Kamen Rider series, Hurricane Polymar)
serves as director. It will start streaming on Netflix on January 12, 2018, then will be aired on TV Tokyo six
days later.
Source: TV Tokyo’s “Mob Psycho 100” TV drama official website
(C) ONE, Shogakukan
(C) Drama “Mob Psycho 100” Production Committee