Hiyori Sakurada teams up with star Kanata Hosoda in the teen story to be released on June 25
kodoani.com – Manga My Girlfriend's Child (Ano Ko no Kodomo) by Mamoru Aoi is inspiring a weekly live-action series, which will premiere Tuesday, June 25 at 11:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. EDT) on the “Ka- ” by Fuji TV in the Dra★Eleven timeslot.
Seven Seas Entertainment published the manga in English and describes the story as follows:
“Sachi and her boyfriend Takara are a normal high school couple. They go to school together, hang out, and even have more intimate dating activities. However, as time passes, Sachi begins to feel something is wrong and decides to buy a pregnancy test. Then, in the bathroom of a family restaurant far from home, she sees two red lines that will change both her and Takara's lives forever.”
Hiyori Sakurada (Sachi Koyama in Twilight, Chizuru Mizuhara in live-action Rent-A-Girlfriend, Hinami Fueguchi in live-action Tokyo Ghoul) will play Sachi Kawakami, and Kanata Hosoda (Hajime Machida in The World of Machida-kun, Hiroshi Drop)'s Shinanogawa plays Takara Tsukishima.
Aoi launched the manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine in May 2021, and Kodansha published the manga's eighth compiled book volume on March 13. The manga entered its final arc in December. Seven Seas Entertainment will publish the manga's eighth compiled book volume. year in English on August 20.
The manga ranked 14th in the list of manga for female readers in Kono Manga ga Sugoi! by Takarajimasha! guidebook 2023. It then won the Best Shōjo Manga category of the 47th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards last year. It received a nomination for Best Young Adult Publication in this year's Will Eisner Comic Book Industry Awards.