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The 10-episode youth romance is a joint Kakao Entertainment and Fuji TV adaptation, premiering Dec. 25 on FOD and Wavve with new episodes every Friday.
Aquaman, the Kakao Entertainment webtoon, becomes a Fuji TV drama on Dec. 25. The 10-episode series premieres at 8 p.m. on Japan's FOD and Korea's Wavve simultaneously, Newsis reported.
Kakao Entertainment said on Nov. 12 that it supplied the original intellectual property and joined the planning and development, while Fuji TV reworked the webtoon's characters and story for its version (Newsis).
The webtoon is a romance about old friends whose closeness starts to blur the line between friendship and love.
Kashiwagi Haru, Hamao Noritaka, and Otomo Karen star. The X account @fujitvplus posted that the drama had been set for simultaneous streaming in Japan and Korea, and that Kashiwagi takes his first lead role in an FOD drama.
⋱✨情報解禁✨⋰ ドラマ『#アクアマン』 ドラマ化＆#FOD ・ #Wavve(韓国)にて 日韓同時配信決定‼️👏 ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ #柏木悠 FODドラマ初主演‼️ #濱尾ノリタカ ・ #大友花恋 と織りなす、 屈折した友情と絆を描く感性ドラマ🌈 ずっと続くと思っていた３人の関係
The webtoon itself came from McQueen Studio and ran on KakaoPage from 2016 to 2019, drawing roughly 200 million cumulative views (Newsis).
The X account @youroli0804 posted about the Japanese-Korean joint production, noting that Kashiwagi leads an adaptation of the Korean webtoon of the same name, with Hamao and Otomo as co-stars.
Kashiwagi Haru (Bullet Train/ Choutokkyuu EBiDAN) lead the Japanese-Korean joint production drama Aquaman adapted from the Korean webtoon of the same name with Hamao Noritaka and Otomo Karen as costars. - Kashiwagi Haru played leading roles in I Cannot Reach You and Monsters in
After the shared premiere, the rollout settles into a weekly rhythm: one new episode every Friday (Newsis).
The premiere is Dec. 25 at 8 p.m., with the following episodes arriving every Friday.
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