Ayame Gouriki to star in live-action L DK

By kevin on May 08, 2013 at 11:11pm EDT

Actress Ayame Gouriki is set to get her first solo lead role in an upcoming live-action adaptation of Ayu Watanabe’s popular shojo manga L♥DK.

Goriki, who has never been featured in a love story before now, will play protagonist Aoi Nishimori.

The manga has been published in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Friend magazine since 2009, reaching a total circulation of over 2.7 million copies. The title L♥DK stands for “Love♥Doukyo (living together) and is also a play on the abbreviation for “living room, dining room, kitchen” in apartment ads.

Goriki’s character Aoi is a high school girl who is living on her own for the first time. One day, a certain incident leads to her and the school ladies’ man, Shuusei Kugayama, secretly living together under the same roof.

Taisuke Kawamura will direct and Yuko Matsuda will handle the screenplay. Filming begins in July with a release slated for spring 2014.

Sources: Anime News Network, Eiga.com