Tokyo Ghoul to Get a Live Action Film Adaptation
Sukitte Ii na yo gets a live action movie adaptation
It’s been revealed that Hazuki Kanae's hit manga Sukitte Ii na yo ( Say ‘I love you’) will get a live action adaptation in the near future. The manga is serialized in the monthly manga magazine Dessert ever since 2008, and it already had a TV anime back in 2012 which raised its popularity enormously.
The manga tells the story of Tachibana Mei, a 16-year-old high school girl who lives a shy life with innocent thoughts; she’s friendless, and she never had a relationship with a boy before. Then one day, she bumps into Kurosawa Yamato; the most popular boy in school, that encounter made him show interest in Mei and he declared that he wanted to be friends with her even one-sidedly. As their friendship grew, he once kissed her in order to save her from a perverted stalker and thus things started to develop between those two.
The movie is to be released in 2014 while the details about the cast members and the exact day of release are yet to be announced.
I saw the anime, and if you haven’t then you should. It had one of the best animations. I liked the art a lot, and the story was cool too. It’s absolutely a slice of life but not melodrama, so I am sure that the live action adaptation was a good choice. Basically, if you liked Kimi Ni Todoke, Bokura Ga Ita Zenpen, and Kouhen I am sure you will like this. I will be waiting for the cast members; I hope they will bring us good actors who can pull this off.
Nishikido Ryo to star in a new fall drama
Yorozu Uranai Dokoro Onmyouya e Youkoso
Based on Amano Shoko’s best-selling novel series Onmyouya (in translation: "Yin-Yang Shop"). It was announced that Nishikido Ryo will be starring in the Fuji TV fall drama titled Yorozu Uranai Dokoro Onmyouya e Youkoso (In translation: Welcome to Fortune-Telling Onmyo Shop).
Nishikido will play the role of a fortune teller and a Yin-Yang master who doesn’t actually possess any psychic powers and so he can’t tell anyone’s future directly. Instead, he relies on his experience as a host and uses the art of conversation to figure out people’s problems. At first no one trusts him but then people figure out that his advice was actually helpful, and he begins to get popularity.
Yorozu Uranai Dokoro Onmyouya e Youkoso will start airing on October every Tuesday on Fuji TV.
Popular Novel Boku Wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai
gets a live action adaptation
A lot of manga adaptations, huh?
It’s been revealed that the popular manga with 5, 55 million copies will get a live action adaptation after being adapted into an anime back in 2011.
The movie will tell the story of Hasegawa Kodaka (Seto Koji), a transfer student. He’s friendless because of his half-Japanese looks with blond hair and angry expressions that make him look like a delinquent. Then he meets Mikazuki Yazura (Kitano Kie) who was talking to her imaginary friends in the classroom; she forms the “Neighbors Club” to help people without friends to start making friendships. With time, lonely classmates start joining the club and they began interacting with each other through cooking, playing games and group activities but are they really getting along?
Filming was completed in June this year and the movie is to be released in New Year 2014.
Rurouni Kenshin gets two sequels
Yes, you didn’t read it wrong; it’s not only one sequel but two!
It’s been announced that, after the big hit of the first movie Rurouni Kenshin that was released last summer, producers gave the green light for two other Rurouni Kenshin installments to be filmed; the first titled Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen (Rurouni Kenshin: The Great Kyoto Fire) and the second Rurouni Kenshin:Densetsu no Saigo-hen (Rurouni Kenshin: The End of a Legend).
Once again,the story will follow the Nobuhiro Watsuki’s original manga specifically the part where Kenshin has a confrontation with the skilled swordsman who replaced him as the top assassin in the Ishin Shishi.
Keishi Otomo is returning to direct the films. Takero Sato has also confirmed his return to the leading role as well as Emi Takei (Kaoru Kamiya), Yuu Aoi (Megumi Takani) and Yosuke Egushi (Hajime Saito).
Joining the cast in the two sequels is Ryunosuke Kamiki as Sojiro Seta, the right-hand man of the formal government assassin Makoto Shishio. Yusuke Iseya will play Aoshi Shinomori, the head of the Oniwabanshu ninja. As well as Tatsuya Fujiwara, who will play Makoto Shishio.
Watsuki’s manga that ran from 1994 to 1998 in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine was a big hit which made the writer turn it into an anime series that ran in Japan from 1996 to 1998 and made the story gain a large fan base not only in Japan but around the world.
If you’re not convinced yet, here’s the trailer of the first movie that shows the amazing fight choreography and the swordplay:
The films are to be released in summer 2014, but the exact date is yet to be announced.
I am in the process of watching the anime. I like anything that has to do with Samurai and swordplay so it’s a given that I am enjoying this. I delayed watching the first movie until I finish the anime, because that’s always my process: Manga or anime then the live action adaptation. Now that there will be two sequels, I can take my time to finish it and watch all the three together.
