The official Twitter account for the live-action film adaptation of Masamitsu Nigatsu‘s Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards (Akabane Honeko no Bodyguard) manga revealed on Sunday that Tao Tsuchiya will join the film’s cast as Masachika Jingū.

Raul (Snow Man idol group member) will play the role of protagonist Arakuni Ibuki.

Other cast members include:

Natsuki Deguchi as Akabane Honeko

Daiken Okudaira as Sumihiko Somejima

Hikaru Takahashi as Nei Togeya

The film will open in Japan on August 2. Junichi Ishikawa (Princess Jellyfish, Fragile, Innai Keisatsu live-action series) is directing the movie, and Hiroyuki Yatsu is is writing the script.

Kodansha‘s K MANGA service is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

They have only one goal – to kill Honeko Akabane! One day, Arakuni Ibuki learns that his childhood friend, Honeko Akabane, is being targeted by assassins! Both of them are in Class 3-4 at Sosoji High School, and Ibuki is ordered to protect Akabane for one year. His goal is to ensure that she graduates safely, but he must do so without her realizing it. And so begins his secret life as a bodyguard at school! However, there seems to be more secrets within “Class 3-4″…?! This is the start of a new and exciting action school comedy!!

Nigatsu debuted the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in September 2022. Kodansha published the manga’s seventh compiled book volume on February 16.

Sources: Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards live-action film’s Twitter account, Comic Natalie