Kokumin Quiz Dying Sport Quiz Manga Will get Netflix Sequence

Netflix Japan supplied on Tuesday that it is miles producing a reside-action assortment adaptation of Reiichi Sugimoto and Shinichi Kato‘s Kokumin Quiz (Nationwide Quiz) manga starring Takayuki Yamada (reside-action Densha Otoko‘s “Train Man,” Bakuman.‘s Akira Hattori, Gintama’s Elizabeth). Netflix did now no longer point to the debut date for the assortment.

Teruyuki Yoshida (reside-action An Older Man’s VR First Luxuriate in, My Brother’s Husband) is directing the assortment, and is also co-writing the scripts with Maggy. Yasunori Nishiki is composing the song.

The manga’s yarn is popularity in a Japan where a quiz television program known as the “National Quiz” holds the supreme institutional power within the nation, enshrined in Japan’s constitution. Winning contributors of the quiz could per chance per chance have faith their desires granted within the power of the authorities, while losers face penalties, penal labor, or militia conscription. Good adequate-i Good adequate-ichi hosts the quiz program, and drives audiences to a frenzy with his pure performing ability. Nonetheless when a team hunting for to dismantle the Nationwide Quiz makes contact with Good adequate-i Good adequate-ichi, it sets into circulate a wild assortment of events.

Sugimoto and Kato serialized the manga in Kodansha‘s Morning magazine from 1993 to 1995. Kodansha revealed four compiled guide volumes for the manga. Ohta Publishing re-launched the manga in two compiled guide volumes in 2001.

Sources: Netflix Japan’s X/Twitter story, Comic Natalie