Kento Nakajima, the advance accompanist of the idol accumulation Sexy Zone, appear on Thursday that he would acting in the new manga-based ball Bad Boys J. Nakajima will play the advance appearance Tsukasa Kiriki, who has a able faculty of justice, but rebels adjoin his affluent parents and joins a motorcycle assemblage alleged the Paradise Butterflies. In Bad Boys J, Tsukasa has become the baton of Paradise Butterflies. The role will mark Nakajima's aboriginal starring role in a drama.

Kis-My-Ft2 affiliate Takashi Nikaidō will play the baton of the Beast gang, the a lot of able assemblage in Hiroshima, and A.B.C-Z affiliate Ryōsuke Hashimoto will play the baton of Paradise Butterflies' battling gang, Hiroshima Knights. All three performers are above associates of aptitude bureau Johnny's Jr., and abounding added associates of the bureau will aswell co-star in the show.

When asked about his role, Nakajima said that he does not accept abundant acquaintance in dramas, but that he is traveling to get into a altered mindset for the role. Nakajima aswell acclaimed the he and Hashimoto accept been on acceptable agreement for a while, and Hashimoto's role apparel him well. Nakajima added that because Nikaidō shows a lot of acuteness during brand practice, he is not acquisitive to action him.

The adventure is based on Hiroshi Tanaka's manga Bad Boys, which ran in Shonen Gahosha's Young King annual from 1988 to 1996. The alternation has added than 50 actor copies of its 22 aggregate book volumes in circulation. A aftereffect manga, Bad Boys Glare, aswell ran in the aforementioned annual from 1996 to 2003. Toei Animation and admiral Osamu Sekita (Cross Game, Ichigo 100%) and Takeshi Yamaguchi (Happy Lesson, Slayers Next) acclimatized the manga into a five-part aboriginal video anime alternation from 1993 to 1998. A live-action blur adjustment of the aboriginal manga opened in Japan in 2011.