Show about budding fashion designer who meets legendary drag queen premieres on March 4
Tokai TV announced on Wednesday that Hiroki Otsuka‘s Backstage in New York manga is getting a live-action series adaptation that will debut on March 4. The live-action series will take place in Tokyo instead of the manga’s New York, and is titled Jiyū na Megami: Backstage in New York (Free Goddess: Backstage in New York).


The manga centers on Sachi, an office worker who lives in a dark, cramped world. She has studied fashion as her dream. She goes to New York, where she meets the drag queen Paul.
The live-action series will have four episodes. In the live-action show, Sachi lives with her father as her mother died when she was young, and she works for a construction firm. Her hobby is making Western-style clothes. She…