Live-Action 'At 25:00, in Akasaka' BL Series Gets 2nd Season in October
The live-action series of Hiroko Natsuno's At 25:00, in Akasaka (25-Ji, Akasaka de) boys-love manga will return with Season 2 this October. Kiita Komagine (left in the photo below) and Taisuke Niihara reprise their lead roles as Asami Hayama and Yuki Shirasaki, respectively. In the new season, an incident occurs that causes trouble in Hayama and Shirasaki's relationship. The season will cover the popular "stage production arc" from the manga. Yuka Yasukawa (live-action My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999), Shinju Funabiki (live-action My Personal Weatherman), and Takashi Haga (Me & My Brother's Mistress) are the new directors for the season. Miho Aotsuka and Kumiko Asō (live-action Rent-A-Girlfriend) are returning to write the scripts. TV Tokyo and other channels will air the season, and it will also stream on GagaOOLala, as well as on U-NEXT and Net mo TV Tokyo in Japan. The other cast members of the first season included: The first season premiered on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TVQ Broadcasting Kyushu on April 18, 2024. It streamed in Japanese with English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish, and Thai worldwide on GagaOOLala, where it was the top-ranked series during its run.Natsuno launched the manga in Shodensha's On Blue boys love magazine in November 2017, and ended it in October 2018. Natsuno launched a side story serialization for the manga in December 2018, and has been irregularly publishing the manga ever since. Shodensha published the manga's fourth compiled book volume in December 2022. The publisher futekiya previously released the manga digitally in English, as well as Natsuno's The Love of Calendula (Fuyu Shirazu no Koi) manga. Source: Comic Natalie
