Live-Action Stay By My Side After the Rain Series Unveils Trailer, Ending Song Info

The staff for the live-action series of Shoko Rakuta's Stay By My Side After the Rain (Ameagari no Bokura ni Tsuite) boys-love manga revealed on Tuesday the series' 60-second trailer video, main visual, and information on its ending theme song.Singer-songwriter SG created the ending theme song "Petrichor" specifically for the live-action series.Masashi Ikeda (A Man Who Defies the World of BL, Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger) plays Shinichirō Kanade, while FANTASTICS from EXILE TRIBE member Natsuki Hori plays Kōsuke Mashiro.Other cast members include: Nobuyoshi Yamada and Masafumi Asami are directing the series, with scripts by Satoko Okazaki. Yuri Habuka is composing the music. Rock band Karanoah performs the opening theme song "aquarium."The series will start streaming on the U-NEXT service on June 25 at 9:00 p.m. (8:00 a.m. EDT) and will then premiere on the TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, TVQ, and TV Osaka channels on July 2.Rakuta launched the manga in Ichijinsha and pixiv's Comic POOL manga website in August 2019 and ended it in August 2020. The second and final compiled book volume shipped in Japan in October 2020.Tokyopop also published Rakuta's I'm Looking for Serious Love! manga. That manga ran in Overlap's LiQulle magazine from September 2018 to February 2019, and had one compiled book volume.Sources: Stay By My Side After the Rain live-action series' website, Drama Next's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie