Fuji TV has announced a new drama series titled "Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi," starring Hiroshi Tamaki and Haruka Ayase.

The bizarre comedy is based on a novel of the same name by Manabu Makime, which was nominated for a Naoki Prize this past summer. Tamaki plays a good-for-nothing teacher who gets assigned to a girls' high school in Nara. He becomes a "deer man," working to prevent the downfall of Japan under the orders of the deer of Nara Park.

Ayase plays his partner, a teacher in the social studies department that is a "history otaku." In the original story, her character was a man, married with children.

Fuji TV will begin filming in mid-December. The show will air on Thursdays at 10:00pm, starting in January.