BS TV Tokyo launched on Friday that the reside-action collection primarily based entirely mostly on Chie Shinkyū‘s Wakako-zake manga will get a 12-episode ninth season that will premiere on BS TV Tokyo and BS TV Tokyo 4K on October 1 at 24:00 (successfully October 2 at 12:00 a.m.). The purpose to will stream on the Lemino Top class, Derive mo Teletō, and TVer providers and products.
Rina Takeda will again huge title within the collection.
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Also starring within the season are Kinuo Yamada, Kenta Kamakari, Wataru Monma, Mizuki Watanabe, Takayuki Sakoi, Shinya Hasegawa, Kōhei Shiotsuka, and Yoshihiro Nozoe.
Shinji Kuma, Shōhei Wakabayashi, and Tarō Kubota return from the outdated season as directors. Scriptwriters embody Kumiko Asō, Momoka Meriyama, Shinji Kuma, and Shōhei Wakabayashi.
The Wakako-zake delicacies manga follows 26-year feeble Wakako, who drinks pretty just a few kinds of alcoholic drinks at bars and consuming locations alone every night, browsing for her region to belong. In the unusual television season, Wakako travels to Hokkaido and Fukushima in northern Japan.
Shinkyū started the manga in Coamix‘s Monthly Humorous Zenon magazine in 2011. Media Construct released the first quantity of the manga digitally in English on a lot of platforms in October 2018. The manga inspired a 12-episode collection of three-minute anime shorts, starring Miyuki Sawashiro, that premiered in July 2015. Crunchyroll streamed the anime collection because it aired.
The principle 12-episode reside-action television season primarily based entirely mostly on the manga aired in January-March 2015, and the second and third 12-episode seasons premiered in January 2016 and April 2017, respectively. The fourth season premiered in January 2019, and the fifth season premiered in April 2020 and aired for 12 episodes. The collection had its first special in December 2020. The sixth season premiered in January 2022, and the seventh season premiered in July 2023. The eighth season premiered on January 8 earlier this year.
Sources: BS TV Tokyo, Humorous Natalie
