A live-action adaptation for the boy's love anime and manga series Given is set to release on July 17. The six-episode series will stream on Fuji TV on Demand.
Ritsuka Uenoyama and Mafuyu Sato fell in love in an unlikely place: a high school stairwell. It wasn’t love at first sight. Rather, it was a gradual fall, just a couple of boys fumbling with their feelings while plucking their guitar strings and humming unfinished melodies.
That, in essence, is the plot of Natsuki Kizu’s
Given, the story of four young men in an amateur band who learn to love and be loved over the course of six volumes (so far). The manga was adapted into a 11-episode anime of the same name in 2019, and a sequel film, aptly titled