Yugo Aosaki's Rock Paper Landmine Novel Gets Live-Action Series on Prime Video
The live-action series brings Aosaki's triple-award-winning 2023 novel to a global streaming audience on Amazon Prime Video, with the cast and production team now locked in.
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Amazon Prime Video announced that Yugo Aosaki's Jirai Glico novel is getting a live-action adaptation titled Rock Paper Landmine. The series streams worldwide on the service starting November 13. Nana Mori stars as Mato Imoriya, Aju Makita plays Kazahi Koda, and Kazuaki Seki directs. The Seven produces.
The series is directed by Kazuaki Seki, with scripts by Tatsuhiro Mishima, Shiori Ueno, and Daiki Kobayashi, and music by Yuma Yamaguchi. The Seven is producing, with Akira Morii as producer.
Kadokawa published the original novel in November 2023. The book took three awards in 2024: the novel division of the 24th Honkaku Mystery Taisho, the full-length novel or collected short stories division of the 77th Nihon Suiri Sakka Kyokai Sho, and the 37th Yamamoto Shugoro Prize.
A manga adaptation by Akira Akatsuki has run in Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine since October 2024, with the fourth volume published on May 29.
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