Smells Like Green Spirit Live-Action Series Gets Compilation Film on June 27 With Added Scenes
The staff for the live-action series adaptation of Saburō Nagai's Smells Like Green Spirit manga revealed on Saturday a trailer and June 27 release date for the show's compilation film version. The show's staff had announced the film version on April 24. The film version will have additional scenes.Towa Araki stars as Futoshi Mishima. Other cast members include Shunta Sono as Makoto Kirino and Kodai Fujimoto as Tarō Yumeno.The manga is set in a sleepy rural town during the Heisei era, and centers on Futoshi Mishima. Long bullied and teased for "looking gay," Mishima has also decided to wear lipstick and cross-dress in secret to comfort himself. One day, he spots Kirino, the leader of a group of his bullies, in possession of lipstick that Mishima had lost. Mishima sees Kirino on the school rooftop, trying to apply the lipstick to himself.Nagai published the manga in Fusion Product's Comic Be magazine from 2011 to 2012, and it had two compiled book volumes labeled "Side:A" and "Side:B." The manga also has a spinoff manga titled Shintan Kairō, which ran for five volumes.SuBLime published Nagai's Boys, Be Ambitious! (Shōnen yo, Taishi toka Iroiro Idake) manga in English in 2013.Sources: Smells Like Green Spirit film's website, Comic Natalie
