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MBS has announced that Ryo Minenami's Boy's Abyss (Shōnen no Abyss) manga is getting a live-action TV drama adaptation in September.

Towa Araki will play protagonist Reiji Kurose.

Boy's Abyss is set to premiere on MBS' "Drama Tokku" programming block on September 1, 2022.

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Towa Araki as Reiji Kurose

"I am both nervous and excited about playing the lead role for the first time and about playing Reiji. 

I have always loved this work, and if it is ever dramatized, I thought, "I want to do it! I wanted to play the role myself." That is why I will live the life of Reiji Kurose to the fullest and do my best so that everyone can enjoy the work."

Ryo Minenami released a new illustration to celebrate the announcement.

Misato Katō and Hiroaki Yuasa are directing the series. Kyōko Inukai is writing the scripts.

VIZ Media has licensed the manga and its first volume is set to be released in English on April 25, 2023.

Self-serving adults and broken dreams push a teenage boy trapped in a dead-end town closer and closer toward the abyss. Reiji’s mother is checked out, he’s stuck caring for his incapacitated grandmother, and his childhood friend treats him like a lackey. So when beautiful, big-city pop idol Nagi miraculously shows up at the local convenience store, Reiji is starstruck. When she offers him the ultimate way out of his claustrophobic existence, will he succumb to temptation…?