Teen actress Maki Horikita has been chosen to star in another television drama based on a popular manga. This fall, Fuji TV will broadcast a 2-hour adaptation of Shinji Inamitsu's "Deru Toko Demasho!," which is currently being serialized in Big Comic Spirits.

Horikita takes on the role of Shizuka Kamei, a high schooler who gets a part-time job as an assistant to the lawyer Hiromu Nonaka (Shosuke Tanihara). (Kamei, Nonaka, and other characters are named after well-known politicians.) The rest of the cast includes Eiko Koike, Yoichi Nukumizu, and Masaomi Kondo.