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Live-Action Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku Series Adds 4 Cast Members
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the live-action series adaptation of Kenji Hamaoka's Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku (Super Radical Gag Family) manga revealed additional cast members for the series on Wednesday.
The new cast members include (clockwise from upper left in image above) Alice Hirose as Kotetsu's homeroom teacher Nanako Nagasakiya, MEGUMI as the mother of Noriko Nishikawa, comedian Shupei as the supermarket clerk, and Buffalo Gorō A (Akihiro Kimura) as Noriko's father.
The show premiered on April 10 and airs on TV Tokyo, TV Hokkaido, TV Aichi, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, and TVQ Broadcasting Kyushu. The series airs new episodes every Friday, except for on TV Osaka, which airs a new episode the following week every Monday. BiSH performs the original ending theme song "Buchi Nuke."
The cast includes:
(Top row, left to right in image above):
- Yukino Kishii as Sakura Ōsawagi
- Miki Mizuno as Junko Ōsawagi
- Jirō Satō as Daitetsu Ōsawagi
- Toshio Sakata as Kintetsu Ōsawagi
- Taiyō Saitō as Kotetsu Ōsawagi
- Chikara Honda as Haru Ōsawagi
In addition, Kinosuke, the son of one of the staff members of the show, plays the baby Yūta Ōsawagi.
Tōichirō Rutō (Ossan's Love franchise) is directing the show, with scripts by Makoto Ueda (The Tatami Galaxy, Night is Short, Walk On Girl, Penguin Highway). Erika Fujita and Akiko Kamiyama are credited as producers, while Shinji Abe is credited as chief producer.
Sambomaster provided an original theme song for the series.
Hamaoka launched the original Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku (Super Radical Gag Family) manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion in 1993. The 31-volume manga spawned three sequels. The 28-volume Ganso! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku sequel ran from 2002 to 2010, and the 24-volume Maido! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku sequel began in 2010 and ended in March 2018. The currently serializing Appare! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku series launched in March 2018.
The original Super Radical Gag Family manga inspired a 33-episode television anime in 1998. Akitarō Daichi (Fruits Basket, Kodocha, Now and Then, Here and There) directed the anime at Studio DEEN. Maido! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku also inspired a television anime in 2014, and Daichi again directed the series.
Sources: TV Tokyo, Comic Natalie
