Japan’s Nippon TV and UK indie Anyway Content are taking a comedy series about a young British woman following her dream of becoming a manga artist to MIPCOM Cannes.
The pair have struck a scripted co-development partnership for How to be a Sensei, which is being penned by Itaru Mizuno, the multiple Asian Academy Creative Award-winning director behind 2023’s breakout hit Rebooting, alongside award-wining British comedy writer Zoë Tomalin, who writes for the likes of Have I Got News For You and Hypothetical.
In How to be a Sensei, the protagonist takes her manga quest to Tokyo, where she heads to several iconic and underground locations.
The series of hour-long episodes are in advanced development following a writing room that was recently held in the Japanese capital.
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