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Manga 'Real Account' Gets Live Action Movie
The seventh issue of this year's Kodansha's Weekly Shounen Magazine has announced on Wednesday that the manga Real Account will get a live-action movie adaptation. More information will be revealed on later issues of the magazine as well as a special website. Okushou pens the man...
8 years ago
Anime Movie Announced for 'Garo: Guren no Tsuki'
The official website for the Garo franchise has announced that Garo: Guren no Tsuki will get an animated movie project. A spin-off live-action TV series titled Kami no Kiba: Jinga centering on the titular character Jinga has also been revealed. Garo is based on the midnight tokus...
8 years ago
Live-Action Film Announced for 'Gakkougurashi!'
Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward January 2018 issue (pictured), which will ship on November 24, reveals that Norimitsu Kaihou and Sadoru Chiba's Gakkougurashi! will receive a live-action film. The series, which is currently on hiatus, is set to resume in the magazine's Febru...
8 years ago
Live-Action TV Series of 'Kakegurui' Announced
An official website has launched for a live-action TV series of Homura Kawamoto and Tooru Naomura's Kakegurui (Kakegurui: Compulsive Gambler) manga on Wednesday. Tsutomu Hanabusa (Heroine Shikkaku, Asahinagu) will direct the TV drama, which is scheduled to air on Mainichi Broadca...
8 years ago
Manga 'Real Girl' Gets TV Anime Adaptation for 2018
The official website for Dessert magazine has revealed that manga Real Girl is getting a TV anime adaptation for 2018. Synopsis Tsutsui Hikari is an otaku, and he mostly avoids social life. Hikari has only one friend at school, who is also a social misfit, and he is mocked brutal...
9 years ago
'Kuragehime' Gets Live-Action TV Series
Fuji TV has launched an official website for a new Kuragehime (Princess Jellyfish) live-action TV series. Junichi Ishikawa will direct the series and Yuuichi Tokunaga will be in charge of the script. Actress Kyouko Yoshine will cast as Tsukimi Kurashita. The TV series will begin...
9 years ago
Web Manga 'Mob Psycho 100' Gets Live-Action TV Drama
Mangaka ONE's Mob Psycho 100 web manga has been announced to receive live-action TV drama to broadcast in January 2018 on TV Tokyo's "MokuDora 25" (Thursday Drama 25) timeslot, which is in collaboration with Netflix. It has been announced that Tatsuomi Hamada (Ultraman Geed) will...
9 years ago
Hollywood Live-Action Film of 'Kimi no Na wa.' Announced
A live-action Hollywood adaptation of Makoto Shinkai's Kimi no Na wa. (Your Name.) anime film has been announced to be produced by Paramount Pictures and American production company Bad Robot on Wednesday. J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Lindsey Weber from Bad Robo...
9 years ago
Hollywood Production of 'Death Note' Premieres Worldwide on Netflix on August 25
A live-action film adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note manga made its red carpet premiere in New York City on Thursday. The film, which is produced for distribution by streaming media platform Netflix, will be released worldwide on August 25. Japanese Americ...
9 years ago
'One Piece' Manga Commemorates 20th Anniversary
Eiichiro Oda's long-running adventure manga One Piece celebrates its 20th anniversary this week in Shueisha's Weekly Shounen Jump magazine. The series began publishing on July 22, 1997. The people involved in the series, as well as fans and other industry personalities around th...
9 years ago
