“Black Angels” to get live-action adaptation

Hiramatsu Shinji’s ”Black Angels“, a popular manga series featured on ‘Weekly Shonen Jump‘ from 1981 to 1985, will receive a live-action adaption. Unfortunately, it’s a straight-to-DVD project, but fans of the series are to check it out when it’s released on May 2011.

“Black Angels” is a story about a secret vigilantes who pursue and execute evil individuals that slipped through the cracks from legal judgment. It has a spinoff manga called “The Matsuda~Black Angels~“, which is currently ongoing through “Bessatsu Manga Goraku.”

For the live-action movie, Ochiai Motoki (NAKED BOYZ) has been chosen to play as the main character, ‘Yukito Yoji’, and Yajima Maimi (℃-ute) will be playing the heroine, ‘Reira’.




source: tokyohive