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Crime and Punishment Manga Gets Live-Action Show

posted on by Jennifer Sherman

The screen Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance manga will be a live-action television series which will premiere on April 29.

Ai Hashimoto will play the leader of a paid dating group named Hikari Baba, and Shota Sumetani will play a money smuggler named Shōta Someya.

In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's original shut-in introvert) man and an enkō (paid dating partner) girl at the center of the crime in modern-day Japan. A college dropout named Miroku meets a high school girl named Risa and devises a terrible plan.

Source: Sports Hochi

Update: More background information added.


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