A VR video and visual was revealed on Wednesday in the official website of the live-action adaptation of Saint Young Men. The show will premiere in Piccoma TV this fall. This is a new streaming service by Kakao Japan. It was announced previously that the show will be aired in the summer.
The 360-degree video shows Jesus and Buddha dealing with a cockroach. The whole lines in the video are ad libbed by Ken’ichi Matsuyama as Jesus and Shota Sometani as Buddha.
The show is based from the popular manga series of the same name created by Hikaru Nakamura. It won the Short Story award at the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009. Gintama film director Yuichi Fukuda will be directing the series with actor Takayuki Yamada as producer. The manga series imagines the lives of Jesus and Buddha sharing a low-rent Tokyo apartment. An anime film adaptation was produced in May 2013.
Source: Comic Natalie