The manga
Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san (Teasing Master Takagi-san) by Souichirou Yamamoto will receive a live-action film adaptation that will be released in Japan on May 31, 2024, according to an announcement from Shogakukan this Tuesday (28).
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Takagi-san's film tells an original story set 10 years after the high school setting of the original manga. Mei Nagano (live-action My Broken Mariko) plays the titular Takagi, now a trainee teacher at her alma mater, while Fumiya Takahashi (Kamen Rider Zero-One, right) plays Nishikata, now a physical education coach at the same school .
Nagano said she had already read the manga and watched the anime before receiving the role, so she is “excited to enter the world of Teasing Master Takagi-san.”
Staff
Rikiya Imaizumi (live-action Houzuki-san Chi no Aneki, Chihiro-san, Just Only Love), the director of the manga's upcoming live-action series, is also directing the film. As with the live-action series, Imaizumi is also co-writing the scripts with Tomoki Kanazawa (Sanctuary, Sabakan) and Jun Hagimori (Sabakan). Takashi Ohmama (Dances with the Dragons, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, The Gene of AI) is composing the music.
Synopsis
High school student Nishikata is tired of his classmate who sits nearby, Takagi. For day after day, she teases him with every kind of trick or joke. Even when he tries to provoke her back, she is always one step ahead, but he is not willing to give up easily in this battle of cunning and youth!
Finally, Yamamoto released the manga in Gessan mini, the companion booklet to Gessan (Monthly Shonen Sunday) magazine, in 2013. After Yamamoto finished the serialization of his Fudatsuki no Kyouko-chan manga in Gessan in June 2016, Teasing Master Takagi-san moved to Gessan in July 2016. The manga ended serialization on October 12.
Source: Comic Natalie
