is a Japanese

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

series by . ''Guilty'' is serialized digitally on from September 1, 2017 to October 30, 2022. A live-action television drama adaptation titled was broadcast from April 2, 2020, to August 6, 2020, as part of YTV's programming block.

Plot

Sayaka Ogino is a 35-year-old editor of a fashion magazine living with her husband of 10 years, Kazuma. Despite a seemingly perfect life, Sayaka wants children but Kazuma does not, and she confides her troubles to her friend Rui Oikawa. To her surprise, Sayaka eventually learns that Kazuma is cheating on her with Rui, and that Rui is fixated on ruining her life. The more Sayaka learns of Rui's lies, the more unpleasant secrets she learns about the people close to her.

Characters

; : :Sayaka is an editor of a fashion magazine. ; : :Kazuma is Sayaka's husband of 10 years who works at a high-paying position at an advertising company. ; : :Rui is Sayaka's friend, who is younger than her. ; : :Akiyama is Sayaka's ex-boyfriend from high school and the owner of an Italian restaurant. ; : :Terashima is a university student who works as an intern at Sayaka's company.

Media

Manga

''Guilty'' is written and illustrated by . It began serialization digitally on the ' website on September 1, 2017. The chapters were later released in eight

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volumes by

Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ...

under the Be Love KC imprint. On April 30, 2021, the series entered its final arc. The series ended serialization on October 30, 2022. At the

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2019,

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announced that they had licensed the series in English for North American distribution, with the volumes distributed digitally.

Television drama

A live-action television series adaptation titled was announced in the April 2020 issue of the

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''Be Love''. The series aired on April 2, 2020, on YTV and NTV as part of the programming block. It stars Yua Shinkawa as Sayaka Ogino. Gekidan Exile member

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, Teppei Koike, Yurika Nakamura, and Fuju Kamio were later announced as cast members. Additional cast members are Eri Tokunaga, Miwako Kakei, , Ryouhei Abe, and . The series is directed by Yo Kawahara, with Yōko Izumisawa in charge of the script. The opening theme song is "Be All Right" by Toshi, released as his first original song on a major record label in 22 years. After the broadcast of the first three episodes, the series was delayed due to the

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. From April 23 to May 7, 2020, the first three episodes were rebroadcast as television specials with commentary. The series resumed broadcast on June 25, 2020. A special episode titled "The Door of Sin" was released exclusively on

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on July 9, 2020.

Dori Sakurada is a Japanese actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Ryoma Echizen as part of the third generation Seigaku cast in ''The Prince of Tennis'' musicals, '' Tenimyu'', and also for the role of Suguru Niragi in Netflix's survival drama ...

made a special guest appearance beginning with episode 8 as Moriya, an editorial staff member of a weekly tabloid magazine and an original character made for the television series.

Reception

In 2019, ''Guilty'' had sold a consecutive total of 1.5 million physical and digital copies.

References

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