Status: Currently airing
Starring: Yoo润, Hiraga Yuta, Watanabe Atsuro, Mizukawa Asami
Type: TV drama
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"Natural Talent" Plot Introduction:
As a part of the country with the most developed anime culture in the world, Japanese television producers naturally won't miss any best-selling comic. Almost every season, they launch TV dramas adapted from popular comics. Turning popular anime into live-action is a double-edged sword, with both joys and concerns. Not all adapted works can win unanimous praise. The poor ratings of NTV's "The Drops of God" in the winter of 2009 is an example. Of course, such individual cases won't affect the trend of continuing to adapt new anime works into live-action film and television works. TBS's new Saturday 8 PM drama "Natural Talent" is still adapted from a popular comic serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine. Upcoming actor Hiraga Yuta will take the lead in this drama. In recent years, rising female star Mizukawa Asami and veteran actor Watanabe Atsuro will play supporting roles in the drama. The story mainly tells about how Shin Tohiki, who has been determined to become a surgeon since childhood due to his father's influence, fights against the cumbersome and corrupt medical system and the complicated illnesses of patients at the Yasuda Memorial Hospital. Hiraga Yuta's acting career under Amuse Inc. has always been moderate, and he mostly plays supporting roles in TV dramas due to his handsome but unremarkable appearance. For him, taking on the role of a character from a classic comic for the first time might be a significant challenge.
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