Strobe Edge Live-Action Series Reveals More Cast, October 31 Debut for 1st Season in Video

Series to adapt full manga in 2 seasons

WOWOW began streaming a new trailer on Saturday for the live-action series of Io Sakisaka's Strobe Edge manga.

WOWOW also revealed more cast members (character romanizations are not confirmed for all characters):

• Kōki Yamashita as Takumi Andō

• Nao Kosaka as Sayuri Uehara

• Motoki Nakazawa as Daiki Korenaga

• Tsubasa Nakagawa as Manabu Miyoshi

• Sora Inoue as Yuutarou Terada

• Neo Inoue as Tamaki Tsutsui

• Yui Oguri as Ritsuko Kashiwagi

• Ririka Tanabe as Mayuka Korenaga

The adaptation will have two seasons to adapt the entire manga. The first season will debut on October 31 at 11:00 p.m. on WOWOW.

The series will star Riko Fukumoto as Ninako Kinoshita and Kyohei Takahashi as Ren Ichinose. The series is reuniting the staff of WOWOW's previous live-action series adaptation of Sakisaka's Blue Spring Ride (Ao Haru Ride) manga that premiered as two seasons in September 2023 and January 2024. Masato Kimura and Yūsuke Matsuda are again directing the Strobe Edge series, and Sayaka Kuwamura is again penning the script.

Strobe Edge previously inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan in March 2015. Sōta Fukushi and Kasumi Arimura starred in the film.

Viz Media published the 10-volume manga in English, and it describes the story.

What is love, anyway? Ninako Kinoshita's friends tell her it's one thing, but Ninako wonders what this mysterious feeling really is. When she meets Ren Ichinose, a handsome, enigmatic guy who all the girls worship, her life takes an unexpected turn. With just a few words and a smile, he changes her world...

Sakisaka launched the manga in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine in 2007, and ended it in 2010.

Viz Media has also released Sakisaka's Blue Spring Ride; Sakura, Saku!; and Love Me, Love Me Not manga in English.

Sources: WOWOW, Comic Natalie