Anime News

Yaoh Drama
Date: 11/7/2005
TOKIO's Masahiro Matsuoka will star in a 2 hour TBS drama adaptation of "Yaoh"(Knight King). The broadcast will be this January. The storyline is adapted from the manga of the same name by Inoue Noriyoshi which serialized in Weekly Young Jump in January, 2003. Sales have exceeded one million copies. 10 volumes are currently on the market with vol. 11 coming December 19th. Matsuoka originally starred in a YAOH one shot TV movie broadcast in May. It enjoyed wide success and thus this new series was decided on.
Source: Anime News Service