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Fans of writer Yuto Yotsuba and illustrator Ryo Ogawa’s Ya Boy Kongming! manga and its anime adaptation will soon get to see the series in a new light. A live-action TV drama adaptation was announced, with plans for the series to premiere on Fuji TV …Read more »
Kashi Mashi Meshi, the popular foodie manga by Mari Okazaki, is getting a live-action series adaptation. The manga, which debuted in 2016, is about three friends who reunite during a sad occasion but find new hope by eating great food together. There are currently five …Read more »
Back in the day, the anime version of Kaiji Kawaguchi’s The Silent Service manga was a perennial fixture on my local Blockbuster shelf. Now, 35 years after the manga first debuted, we’re finally getting a live-action adaptation. The film, an Amazon original, will hit Japanese …Read more »
Yasuyuki Kosaka’s Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater manga is a story about a fishing club, and it first launched in Young Champion Retsu back in February 2017. Now, according to the February 2023 issue of the magazine, a live-action series adaptation is in …Read more »
Parasyte, the body-snatchin’ horror manga from Hitoshi Iwaaki, has been adapted into anime, live-action films and more. Now it’s set for a live-action series made in South Korea. Netflix will stream the series. In Japanese, the title has been announced as Kiseiju: The Grey (ostensibly …Read more »
Following the act of the four-episode drama and live-action films in 2017, a new live-action TV drama adaptation is on the way to cover writer Mikoto Yamaguchi and illustrator Yuki Sato’s Tomodachi Game manga. The series is set to make its debut on the TV …Read more »
Netflix’s Geeked Week continues with a bunch of announcements, and one of them is getting ready to bring another manga to the screen. The latest project will adapt writer Haro Aso and illustrator Kotaro Takata’s Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead manga in the …Read more »
Netflix is doing a live-action adaptation of the manga Kentarō Hiyama’s First Pregnancy (known as Hiyama Kentarō no Ninshin in Japanese), which they’ve titled as He’s Expecting. He’s Expecting is being released globally on April 21, and in the meantime an English-subtitled trailer has dropped …Read more »
Violence Action, the manga written by Shin Sawada and illustrated by Renji Asai, is getting a live-action film adaptation. The film is due out sometime this year, and will star Kanna Hashimoto. Hashimoto plays lead character Kei, a 20-year-old student and part-time assassin. Released today …Read more »
Naoki Yamamoto’s Believers manga first launched in Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine in May 1999 and ran until November 1999. Now the series is officially getting an adaptation in the form of a live-action film, and it’s set to open in Japan this summer. …Read more »
Kintetsu Yamada’s Sweat and Soap is a spicy romantic comedy manga that follows an office lady concerned about how much she sweats and a brilliant perfume maker who has the hots for her, and it’s officially getting a live-action adaptation. The TV drama take on …Read more »
Insomniacs After School, the manga about insomniac high school students by Makoto Ojiro, is getting both TV anime and live-action film adaptations. That’s the word from the latest volume of the manga, its eighth. Insomniacs After School launched in the pages of Big Comic Spirits …Read more »
16-year-old Kaname Amamiya is a kind, well-meaning young man with a lot of troubles. His parents have both died, leaving him to care for his 14-year-old sister, Miyu. But now Miyu is sick, and unless she gets very expensive surgery, she will die before she …Read more »
xxxHOLiC, the manga by legendary supergroup CLAMP, is getting the live-action film treatment. That’s the word from Shochiku and Asmik Ace, who will release the film on April 29, 2022. It’ll star Ryunosuke Kamiki as Kimihiro Watanuki and Ko Shibasaki as Yuko Ichihara. The film …Read more »
Itokichi’s Merman in My Tub manga—known in Japan as Orenchi no Furo Jijo)—is getting an adaptation, and this one is on the way in the form of a live-action Taiwanese series. Kadokawa made the announcement in the December issue of Monthly Comic Gene magazine, with …Read more »
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