MBS has announced the main cast for the TV drama adaptation of Ryo Minenami's Boy's Abyss (Shōnen no Abyss) manga.
Towa Araki will play protagonist Reiji Kurose.
Boy's Abyss is set to premiere on MBS' "Drama Tokku" programming block on September 1, 2022.
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…?
Towa Araki will play protagonist Reiji Kurose.
Boy's Abyss is set to premiere on MBS' "Drama Tokku" programming block on September 1, 2022.
MAIN CAST AND VISUALS:
Towa Araki as Reiji Kurose / Hinako Kitano as Nagi Aoe
Miyu Honda as Sakuko Akiyama / Natsuki Hori as Gen Minegishi
Rena Matsui as Yuri Shibasawa / Reiko Kataoka as Yūko Kurose
Sōkō Wada as Kōsaku Esemori
TEASER VISUAL:
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…?