Guilty (manga)
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 learns that 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. Media. Manga. "Guilty" is written and illustrated by . It is  serialized digitally on beginning on September 1, 2017. The chapters were later released in eight bound volumes by Kodansha under the Be Love KC imprint. At the New York Comic Con 2019, Kodansha USA 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 manga magazine "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 Keita Machida, Teppei Koike, , and 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 in 22 years. After the broadcast of the first three episodes, the series was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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 Hulu on July 9, 2020. Dori Sakurada 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.