Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss!

Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! (不幸くんはキスするしかない！) is a Japanese manga series by Gamoko Tsuyu. It was serialized in the yaoi digital manga magazine B-Boy P! since September 2019. A live-action television drama adaptation was broadcast from April 22, 2022 to June 10, 2022 as the first entry for Drama Shower, a programming block created MBS in collaboration with Tunku, Kadokawa Corporation's label for live-action boys' love television dramas.

Plot
Having nothing but bad luck for all his life, college student Kōta Fukuhara maintains a pleasant demeanor on the outside to mask his frustrations with his misfortunes. After a run-in with his popular classmate, Naoya Shinomiya, Kōta learns that Naoya has nothing but good luck all his life, and just by being around him, he can minimize his bad luck. He proposes a friendship with Naoya, but Naoya misinterprets his words as a love confession and assumes they are dating.

Characters

 * Kōta Fukuhara (福原 幸多)
 * Kōta is a college student who has experienced bad luck for all of his life. He masks his resentful personality with a good-natured demeanor.
 * Kōta is a college student who has experienced bad luck for all of his life. He masks his resentful personality with a good-natured demeanor.


 * Naoya Shinomiya (篠宮 直哉)
 * Naoya is Kōta's classmate who has experienced good luck for all of his life. He is popular and good-looking.
 * Naoya is Kōta's classmate who has experienced good luck for all of his life. He is popular and good-looking.


 * Mugi Sasaki (佐々木 麦)
 * Mugi is one of Naoya's friends who gets easily excited.
 * Mugi is one of Naoya's friends who gets easily excited.


 * Saku Tsujimura (辻村 朔)
 * Gaku is one of Naoya's friends who has a cool appearance.
 * Gaku is one of Naoya's friends who has a cool appearance.

Manga
Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! is written and illustrated by Gamoko Tsuyu. It is serialized in the yaoi digital manga magazine B-Boy P! since September 10, 2019. After its initial end in May 2020, Tsuyu resumed the manga to coincide with the April 2022 broadcast of the television drama adaptation. The chapters were later released in two bound volumes by Libre under the B-Boy P! Comics imprint. During their Anime Expo 2023 panel, Animate International announced that they licensed the manga.

Television drama
On March 4, 2022, MBS and Tunku (a label of Kadokawa Corporation specializing in live-action boys' love television dramas) announced they were producing a live-action television drama adaptation of Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! as their first entry for their collaboration programming block, Drama Shower. The series premiered on MBS on April 22, 2022, and ended on June 10, 2022. Simultaneous broadcasts also included TV Kanagawa, Chiba TV, TV Saitama, Tochigi TV, and Gunma TV.

The drama adaptation stars Ryōsuke Sota as Kōta Fukuhara and LOL member Yūsuke Satō (singer) as Naoya Shinomiya. The supporting cast includes Satsuki Nakayama as Mugi Sasaki and Gaku Oshida as Shō Tsujimura, as well as two original characters with Mei Hata as Miki and Asuka Hanamura as Anna. The opening theme is "Perfect" by Octpath and the ending theme is "Shinu Made Kimi o Shirō" by Touya Kobayashi.

Kaoru Azuma, the creator of Tunku, stated that, despite Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! being published under a company outside of Kadokawa, she chose it as the first series to adapt. She stated that she had been keeping track of B-Boy P!, as the stories running in the magazine were accessible as entry point for newcomers to the boys' love genre. Azuma mentioned that because Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! had a lot of comedic value, she had an idea of how she wanted Kōta to be portrayed and that she wanted Tunku's first entry to be a romantic comedy. Azuma stated that she focused on Kōta's two-faced personality as a "selling point" to casting the actor and that she had to make sure the rest of the actors looked "balanced" when they are together.

Reception
From September 2019 to May 2020, Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! had at least 2.5 million pageviews. For the live-action television drama, Kaoru Azuma, the creator of Tunku, stated that it was popular among teenagers.