Kujo no Taizai Manga Gets a Live Action Netflix Series
Netflix and TBS announced on Monday that they are producing a live action series based on Shohei Manabe’s manga Kujō no Taizai, known in English as Kujō’s Deadly Sins. It will debut exclusively on Netflix in spring 2026.
Yuuya Yagira leads the cast as Taiza Kujō, with Hokuto Matsumura playing Shinji Karasuma. The story unfolds in a turbulent modern Japan, where Kujō works quietly behind the scenes as a so called guardian of darkness amid spreading chaos.
The supporting cast fills out that shadowy world. Elaiza Ikeda plays Nimi Yakushimae, a social worker who keeps an eye on the accused, while Keita Machida is Kengo Mibu, a contact in the criminal underworld who runs a bicycle repair shop as a front. Takuma Otoo appears as Yoshinobu Arashiyama, who sees the pair as rivals, and Tsuyoshi Muro plays Kiyoshi Kyōgoku, the young boss of the Fushimi yakuza group.
Behind the camera, Nobuhiro Doi, Takeyoshi Yamamoto, and Hiroshi Adachi are directing, with Shinji Nemoto writing the script. Manabe began the manga in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in October 2020, and it now has more than 4 million copies in circulation, with its fifteenth volume due on October 30.
Longtime readers will know Manabe best for Ushijima the Loan Shark, his acclaimed series that ran from 2004 to 2019, won a Shogakukan Manga Award, and earned international recognition along with its own live action adaptations.
My take: Manabe has a real gift for gritty, morally tangled stories, so a dark crime drama from him feels like a natural fit for live action. I am curious to see how this shadowy world translates to the screen.
