TBS announced on Monday that Mika Yamamori’s In the Clear Moonlit Dusk (Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki) manga is inspiring a live-action film this fall.
Image via live-action In the Clear Moonlit Dusk film’s X/Twitter
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Shunsuke Michieda (live-action My Love Mix-Up! TV series, live-action The Kindaichi Case Files series) stars as Kohaku Ichimura (right in photo above), and Seira Anzai (live-action Insomniacs After School film, live-action Trillion Game TV series) stars as Yoi Takiguchi (left).
Kentarō Takemura (live-action Trillion Game TV series) is directing the film, and Yuichi Tokunaga (live-action Densha Otoko TV series) wrote the script. Shū Kanematsu (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Aquarion: Myth of Emotions) is composing the music. TBS TV is overseeing production at TBS Sparkle, and TOHO is distributing.
Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
Yoi Takiguchi has long legs, a deep voice, and a handsome face…in other words, Yoi is such a good-looking guy that most people don’t notice or care that she is, in fact, a girl. Indeed, she’s had the nickname “Prince” as long as she can remember. That is, until she met Ichimura-senpai…the only person who’s really seemed to see her for herself. To her surprise, she’s not sure how to handle this new relationship, especially when her newfound friend is a prince himself (and a guy prince, at that). The story of the two high school princes starts here!
Yamamori launched the manga in Dessert magazine in 2020. Kodansha published the manga’s 10th compiled book volume on January 13.
The manga ranked #11 on the list of manga for female readers in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha’s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.
The manga’s anime adaptation premiered on January 11 at 4:30 p.m. JST on TBS and 27 affiliated channels. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.
Sources: In the Clear Moonlit Dusk live-action film’s official website, Comic Natalie
