We’ve talked about the Gravure Paradise! property a few times in regards to some of its cover artwork, and late last year when the manga crossed the 350,000 mark of copies in circulation in print and digital form. The series is known originally as Grapara! and was launched in 2023 by writer Ari Katsura and artist Keishi Nishikida as serialized through Magazine Pocket from Kodansha.
We learned last month that a live-action TV series is finishing up its production with plans for a July 6th, 2025, premiere date through ABC in Japan. Now, a new round of casting has been confirmed for it with:
- Gaku Oshida
- Rina Hashimoto
- Nanaka Yano
- Mariya Nagao
Ruka Kitano was previously announced as Sakura Katsuragi.
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The show has Kenji Kuwashima directing it from the scripts by Shinya Hokimoto. Ruka Kitano of SKE48 plays Sakura Katsuragi, who you can see below.
Katsura made their debut in 2014 with Megami to Ichinen Kuashite Mita and has half a dozen titles to their name while Nishikida debuted in 2011 with My Wife is Wagatsuma-san and followed that up in 2019 with Kisu Shite Kurenakya Shinjau.
Magazine Pocket, or MagaPoke, is an online webcomic site run by Kodansha and tied into their Weekly Shōnen Magazine line.
Plot Concept: A clueless gravure geek, Sumida Shinobu, starts living together with a fledgling gravure model, Kuzuki Sakura, by chance. While he is excited about his dreamy days, a dirty photographer, a corrupt manager, and a sexually harassing producer all come after “my darling Sakura-chan” one after another! Can Shinobu protect Sakura-chan’s chastity?
An NTR love comedy between a geek and popular gravure idols.
Check out the regular and NSFW fifth and sixth volume manga covers:
