We learned back in July that a new live-action adaptation was coming for the Angel Heart 2nd Season manga series from Tsukasa Hojo and now the first bit of casting has come in. This piece brings us the principal cast for the show and it looks like they’re largely nailing it so far. The series is set to debut on October 11th, 2015 and will run for 85 minutes to draw viewers into its world and want to continue with it.
The manga series, which ran from 2001 to 2010 over the course of thirty-three volumes for the original series, is in the development land for a live action TV series. This is set to be something similar but different as it deals with the character of Xiang-Ying, a character that has original lead character Kaori’s transplanted heart. Hojo started the Angel Heart 2nd Season series back in 2010 and has eleven compiled volumes out so far for it.
Original concept: A young Taiwanese assassin codenamed “Glass Heart” committed suicide by jumping off a building, and her heart was pierced by metal fence. Miraculously, her life was saved by heart transplantation. During her recovery she began to experience strange dreams, which lead her to Japan looking for the donor of her heart, who happens to be Kaori Makimura, former partner of City Hunter Ryo Saeba.
[Source: Comic Natalie via Crunchyroll]
