One of the more interesting anime-related announcements out of this past weekend's New York Comic Con came from Bandai Namco Pictures, which announced plans for a live-action Hollywood take on superhero anime Tiger & Bunny . The process is in very early stages—they're still looking …Read more »
Bakuman is the best live-action manga adaptation I’ve seen this year. Based on the manga by Death Note creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Bakuman is the story of two high school students who team up to create a manga worthy of serialization in Shonen …Read more »
Yep, there's still a new Power Rangers movie in the works, and it looks like things are moving along. The latest bit of news out of the project involves the casting of the Pink Ranger. 22-year-old actress Naomi Scott will be taking on the role …Read more »
The third stage musical for Black Butler — Musical Kuroshitsuji -Chi ni Moeru Licorice ( Musical Black Butler: Licorice That Blazes the Earth )—is preparing for a four-city tour in Japan, followed by a three-city China tour. To get fans in both locations ready, the …Read more »
It was tough to miss the loud accusations of whitewashing leveled at Dreamworks earlier this year when their live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost In the Shell was announced, placing Scarlett Johansson in the lead role of Major Kusanagi. The news this week is that …Read more »
Cult director Takashi Miike will helm a live-action version of Hiroaki Samura’s manga Blade of the Immortal , it was announced today. Main character Manji will be played by Takuya Kimura ( Redline , Space Battleship Yamato ). The manga, which ran from 1993 to …Read more »
Variety has another update on the live-action Hollywood Death Note movie, which is being helmed by You're Next and The Guest director Adam Wingard. The latest report has Nat Wolff—star of big screen adaptations of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns …Read more »
We’ve been waiting on the edge of our seats over here at OUSA HQ for any word on the new Godzilla film, so we were thrilled this morning to get word of the film’s title – which, as it turns out, is literally New Godzilla …Read more »
If there’s one clear trend we’ve seen over the last few years in Japan, it’s a rise in the number of live-action adaptations of anime and manga. It’s to the point where over half of the films we review here at Japan HQ aren’t even …Read more »
Yuki Suetsugu's Chihayafuru manga is getting a live-action adaptation in the form of two films, which open in Japan March and April of next year, respectively. The films are being directed by Norihiro Koizumi (Midnight Sun, Kanojo wa Uso o Ai Shisugiteru ). The first …Read more »
You thought it couldn’t be done: the over-the-top, almost criminally perverted manga-turned-anime Prison School is becoming a live-action TV series. This past Friday, the cast of the series was revealed in a series of photographs that shows them looking remarkably similar to their manga counterparts. …Read more »
Shooting for the upcoming Godzilla film co-directed by Evangelion director Hideaki Anno and live-action Attack on Titan director Shinji Higuchi has apparently started in Tokyo. Videos posted on Twitter and Vine by Japanese users shows a scene filmed near Kamata bus station featuring extras fleeing …Read more »
Thanks again to our Australian buddies Madman Entertainment, we’ve got an English-subtitled trailer for Attack on Titan: End of the World , the second Attack on Titan film that’s out September 19 in Japan. The film serves as the conclusion to the first Attack on …Read more »
If you're looking forward to the next Kamen Rider tokusatsu series, Kamen Rider Ghost , Toei recently shared an extended trailer. The latest series follows Takeru Tenkūji (played by Shun Nishime), a young man resurrected as a masked hero after a monster kills him. Kamen …Read more »
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