Live-Action Happy Kanako's Killer Life Series' Trailer Unveils More Cast, February 28 Debut
The DMM TV streaming service started streaming the trailer for the live-action series of Toshiya Wakabayashi's Happy Kanako's Killer Life (Shiawase Kanako no Koroshiya Seikatsu) manga on Tuesday. The video announces more cast members and the series' February 28 premiere on DMM TV. DMM TV also revealed the series' "strongest buddies" key visual:The newly announced cast are (image above from top left to bottom right): Non (left in the visual above) plays the titular Kanako, a girl who unwittingly becomes an assassin and finds that she has talent for it. Kis-My-Ft2 boy band member Taisuke Fujigaya (right) plays Sakurai, Kanako's assassin mentor and partner who constantly worries over her.Tsutomu Hanabusa (live-action Tokyo Revengers) is directing the series. Wakabayashi launched the four-panel web manga on Twitter and his pixivFANBOX account, and Seikaisha has since serialized the manga on its Twi4 service. Seikaisha published the manga's seventh compiled book volume in March 2023. Seven Seas Entertainment released the manga's seventh volume in April 2024.Wakabayashi's Tsuredure Children manga chronicles a series of short school romance stories in an omnibus format. Wakabayashi launched the manga online in October 2012, and then also began serializing it with new material in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2015. The manga ended in July 2018. Kodansha USA Publishing released the manga digitally in English. The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in July 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series with English subtitles as it aired, and Funimation streamed an English dub.Sources: DMM TV's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
