Did a quick search to see if this was announced earlier here, but came up empty. Excuse if I was wrong.
Planning to air in spring of 2007, "Maison Ikkoku" was announced earlier by
ANN (and by others) with Misaki Ito-san playing Kyoko Otonashi. The part of Yusaku Godai will be played by 21-year old Taiki Nakayayashi-san, a college senior at Osaka Gakuin University. ("The Yomiuri Shimbon" and
TV Asahi)
From the newspaper article, this will be Nakabayashi-san's screen debut, and was selected from 3200 applicants in auditions open to amateurs only.
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