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Alice-san Chi no Iroribata, the Bunta Kinami manga about a woman who returns to her rural hometown after living in Tokyo for a decade, is getting the live-action treatment. The series will star Fumika Baba as Alice, and premiere on January 7, 2025. Baba is …Read more »
Kujaku no Dance, Dare ga Mita? (Who Saw the Peacock Dance in the Jungle?), the josei crime manga from Rito Asami, is getting a live-action TV series. The show will star Kenichi Matsuyama (Death Note) and Suzu Hirose (Chihayafuru) and will start airing in January …Read more »
Kowloon Generic Romance, the manga from Jun Mayuzuki (After the Rain), is getting the double adaptation treatment. The slice-of-life set in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City will be adapted into both an anime series and a live-action film in 2025. Reiko Kujirai will be played …Read more »
Just in time for spooky season comes the news that the horror-comedy manga Mieruko-chan is getting a live-action film adaptation. The film will be released in Japan in summer 2025. It’ll star Nanoka Hara, whose voice will be familiar to fans of Suzume, and who also …Read more »
Under Ninja, the action-comedy manga from Kengo Hanazawa (I Am a Hero) is getting a live-action film, and the movie just revealed a couple of the film’s stars, posters and a teaser trailer. The film is set to hit screens in Japan on January 24, …Read more »
Kirio Fanclub, the manga by Ponchan Chikyu no Osakana about two high school girls who have a crush on the same classmate, is getting both live-action and anime adaptations. That’s the word from the author, who posted on X to deliver the news with a …Read more »
Yano-kun no Futsu no Hibi (Yano’s Ordinary Days) is a manga by Yui Tamura about a high school student named Yano who shows up to school injured day after day. He’s one unlucky guy: falling down stairs, getting bitten by dogs, running into trees… you …Read more »
Aoshima-kun wa Ijiwaru (Aoshima-kun is Mean), the three-volume manga series by Yu Yoshii, is getting a live-action series. The series will star Shota Watanabe from the group Snow Man as Mizuki Aoshima and Anne Nakamura as Yukino Katsuragi. The manga, which ran from 2020 to …Read more »
A Girl & Her Guard Dog, the manga by Hatsuharu, is getting a live-action film adaptation. The film will star Riko Fukumoto as Isaku and Jesse from SixTONES as Keiya. It’ll be directed by Keiichi Yobayashi (Koi wa Hikari). The manga, which launched in 2018, …Read more »
Happy Kanako’s Killer Life, the comedy manga from Toshiya Wakabayashi about an accidental assassin, is getting the live-action treatment. The live-action TV adaptation will star Non (In This Corner of the World) as Kanako and Taisuke Fujigaya (Kis-My-Ft2) as her mentor Sakurai. The series will …Read more »
Tomoko Boryoku’s An Older Guy’s VR First Love manga first kicked off on Ichijinsha’s Zero-Sum Online website in 2020, and now it’s getting a live-action adaptation. NHK announced plans for a live-action series, which is currently lined up for an April 2024 premiere. The series …Read more »
This month will mark the premiere of a live-action series based on For the Kid I Saw in My Dreams, a manga written and illustrated by Kei Sanbe. Streaming service Lemino revealed plans for the production at the end of July, setting the premiere for …Read more »
Sexy Tanaka-san is a manga by Hinako Ashihara that centers on an office lady in her 40s who has a surprising side to her personality and the 23-year-old temp who looks up to her after discovering her secret. Now the series is getting a live-action …Read more »
Shonen Jump app enjoyers will notice Luffy of Netflix’s One Piece on the title bar today. It’s a neat collaboration. But it’s also making us wonder… what other Shonen Jump titles could make the jump to live-action? The sky’s the limit, but we’re still choosing carefully. …Read more »
At the end of June, the official JUJUTSU KAISEN accounts announced that the manga has surpassed 80 million copies printed physically and sold digitally. A live-action promo was promised to commemorate the milestone, and while it doesn’t include any characters just as they said it …Read more »
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