The second part of the two-part theatrical adaptation of Haikara-san ga Tooru from Waki Yamamoto, which is working with the subtitle of The Grand Tokyo Romance, is set to premiere on October 19th, 2018 in Japan. We learned recently that Eleven Arts will be bringing it out in Winter 2019 domestically in theaters and now the official site for the two-part film project has revealed that Maaya Sakamoto has joined in the role of Larisa, wife of Sasha, in the film. Toshiaki Kidokoro will be directing the second part which originally had a spring 2018 planned premiere and saw Mitsuko Kase depart as the director.
The Japanese includes Saori Hayami as Benio Hanamura, Mamoru Miyano as Shinobu Ijuin, Takahiro Sakurai as Tosei Aoe, Kazuya Nakai as Shingo Onijima, Yuki Kaji as Ranmaru Fujieda, Asami Seto as Tamaki Kitakouji, Unshou Ishizuka as Major Hanamora, Reiko Suzuki as Baaya, Kenta Miyake as Ushigorou, and Shizuka Itou as Kichiji.
The original manga was serialized in Shoujo Friend and had eight compiled volumes originally before getting a four-volume bunko edition. Here’s hoping Kodansha USA will take a chance on bringing out the bunko version here to help celebrate.
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「後編 〜花の東京大ロマン〜」より登場する、日本へ亡命してきた少尉そっくりの旧ロシア貴族、サーシャ・ミハイロフ侯爵の夫人 "ラリサ" 役に、坂本真綾さん
が、決定いたしました！！！
詳細⇒https://t.co/d8c2tjEBN8 #はいから #坂本真綾 pic.twitter.com/uLfRg9gsW1
— 劇場アニメ『はいからさんが通る』公式 (@haikara_anime) July 13, 2018
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坂本さんはラリサについて、「だれにも言えない重大な秘密をひとりで抱えています。」
とコメント。
消息不明となった少尉と瓜二つなサーシャ。ラリサが隠している秘密とは？
後編は10月19日（金）公開予定です。
詳細⇒https://t.co/d8c2tjEBN8 #はいから #坂本真綾 pic.twitter.com/052VU2ckvn
— 劇場アニメ『はいからさんが通る』公式 (@haikara_anime) July 13, 2018
Waki Yamato has been creating manga for fifty years this year and it serves as a great anniversary present of sorts for her and longtime older fans out there. The property previously received an anime TV series back in 1978 but it ended abruptly along the way. it had a follow-up of a couple of live-action shows and a theatrical film in the years since.
Plot Concept: Benio Hanamura is a 17-year-old schoolgirl in Tokyo during the Taisho era. Benio lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy—contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions, and isn’t as interested in housewife duties as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman’s right to a career and to marry for love. Benio’s best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Benio but equally interested in women’s rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms.
