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Mari Okazaki's Will I Be Single Forever? Manga Gets 2nd Live-Action Film

The official X/Twitter account for the live-action film of Mari Okazaki's Will I Be Single Forever? (Zutto Dokushin de Iru Tsumori?) manga announced on Thursday that the manga will have a second film titled Tenten Zutto Dokushin de Iru Tsumori? The film will debut streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on October 23.

The new film will have an original story. The film centers on the carefree and aimless 30-year-old Yamada, the unsociable 38-year-old Shiba, and the career minded 46-year-old Shimizu. The film will follow all three individuals' single lives and their choices in life.

The cast includes Sumi Morika as Yamada, Ryūya Wakaba as Shiba, and Yū Kashii as Shimizu. Other cast members include Haruka Imō, Kentarō Tamura, Tomo Kasajima, Asuka Kurosawa, Kazuko Shirakawa, Hidekazu Mashima, and Gin Maeda.

Yūko Hakota is directing the film. Takehiko Minato is penning the script. Takuma Watanabe is composing the music.

The first Will I Be Single Forever? live-action film opened in Japan in November 2021.

Okazaki launched the manga in Feel Young in November 2014, and ended it in October 2015. The manga's premise is based on Mami Amamiya's essay of the same name. Shodensha published one compiled book volume for the manga. Viz Media released the manga in 2018.

Okazaki is best known for her workplace romance Suppli, which ran in Shodensha's Feel Young magazine from 2003 to 2009. Tokyopop published five volumes of the series. The manga inspired a live-action television series in Japan in 2006.

Okazaki's Kashimashi Meshi manga inspired a live-action series in April 2023.

Sources: Will I Be Single Forever? live-action film's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie