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Ayumi Komura Ends Kami-sama no Ekohiiki Manga

This year's 11th issue of Shueisha's Margaret magazine published the final chapter of Ayumi Komura's Kami-sama no Ekohiiki (Favoritism of the Gods) manga on Wednesday. Shueisha will ship the manga's fifth and final compiled book volume on June 25, and it will include Komura's "Alice" one-shot manga, which the magazine describes as the "prototype" for Kami-sama no Ekohiiki.

The manga centers on Yashiro, a high school boy who visits a local shrine 100 times to ask for confidence from the local god to confess his feelings to his friend Kenta. When he finally does it, Kenta turns him down, saying to Yashiro that he only likes girls. While heartbroken, he has an accident and dies. When he is brought back to life by the god that he prayed to, the god informs him that he has given him a new life as a high school girl, and a chance to repeat his confession to Kenta in his new form.

Komura launched the manga in Margaret in March 2017. Shueisha published the manga's fourth compiled book volume (pictured at right) on March 23.

Komura launched a new manga titled Kare Cafe in Margaret's sister magazine The Margaret on February 24.

Viz Media published Komura's Mixed Vegetables manga in print and digital forms in North America. The American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) division listed the first Mixed Vegetables volume among the "great graphic novels for teens" published in 2009.

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Meiji Tokyo Renka Romance Games Get 2nd Stage Musical

The official website for the stage musicals for Broccoli's Meiji Tokyo Renka franchise announced a second musical titled Meiji Tokyo Renka Gekkō no Meine Liebe (Moonbow of My Fiancé) on Friday. The play will run in Osaka's Morinomiya Piloti Hall from August 18-19 and in Tokyo's Theatre 1010 from August 25-September 2.

Sayaka Sakuragi is returning from the first musical to write the script and Kōtarō Yoshitani is returning to direct. tak is composing the music and MAMORU is handling choreography.

The first stage musical, Kageki Meiji Tokyo Renka ~Oborozuki no Chat Noir~ (Musical Meiji Tokyo Love Song ~Black Cat of the Hazy Moon~; pictured below), premiered in Japan in June 2016. The musical continued from the Gekijōban Meiji Tokyo Renka: Yumihari no Serenade (Film Version Meiji Tokyo Love Song ~Crescent Moon's Serenade~) anime film, which opened in Japan in 2015.

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Broccoli's Meiji Tokyo Renka visual novel romance franchise began with a 2011 mobile game, which was ported to PlayStation Portable in 2013. A television anime adaptation and a live-action series and film have also been green-lit. A new iOS and Android game is slated for this summer.

The anime movie's website describes the story's prologue: On an evening lit by a crimson full moon, an ordinary high school girl named Mei Ayazuki meets a self-proclaimed magician named Charlie at a festival. Through Charlie's magic, she time-travels to the Meiji era in Tokyo, where she meets and falls in love with various great historical figures from that time period.

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Live-Action Ano Ko no, Toriko. Film's Teaser Video, October 5 Premiere Revealed

The official website for the live-action film adaptation of Yuki Shiraishi's Ano Ko no, Toriko. manga announced on Tuesday that the film will open in Japan on October 5. The website also revealed a teaser video and poster visual.

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Ryō Miyawaki is directing the film, and Taeko Asano (live-action NANA, Clover, Happy Marriage!?) is penning the script.

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The cast includes (from left to right in image above):

Yūko Araki as Shizuku Tachibana

Ryō Yoshizawa as Yori Suzuki

Yousuke Sugino as Subaru Tōjō

The manga centers on three childhood friends in a love triangle. Yori moved back to the countryside, and started wearing glasses and not being noticed by girls. Meanwhile, Shizuku entered the entertainment industry alongside Subaru, and both began working as a model and actor, respectively. But when Yori turns 16, he re-enters their lives.

Shiraishi launched the manga in Shogakukan's Sho-Comi magazine in 2013. Shogakukan published the fifth volume last July.

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Live-Action After the Rain Film's Spinoff Mini-Series Debuts

The GyaO! streaming service began streaming the first episode of Koi wa Ameagari no You ni: Pocket no Naka no Negaigoto (After the Rain: Wish in a Pocket), the live-action spinoff web mini-series based on the live-action film of Jun Mayuzuki's Koi wa Ameagari no You ni (After the Rain) manga, on Wednesday. The mini-series was announced on April 22. The mini-series has four episodes, and the remaining episodes will stream on May 11, 18, and 25.

The new mini-series focuses on the relationship between the characters Takashi Yoshizawa and Yui Nishida, who are supporting characters in the original story.

The series maintains the same cast as the film. Hiroki Kazama is directing the series.

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The film will open in Japan on May 25.

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Nana Komatsu (left in picture below) stars Akira Tachibana, while Yo Oizumi (right) is playing Masami Kondō.

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The additional cast includes (clockwise from top left in image above):

Shōno Hayama as Takashi Yoshizawa, Akira's classmate who has a crush on her

Nana Seino as Haruka Kiyan, Akira's close friend and captain of the track team

Hayato Isomura as Ryōsuke Kase, Akira's fellow part-time worker and cook at Garden

Honoka Matsumoto as Yui Nishida, Akira's fellow part-time worker and waitress at Garden

Mari Hamada as Kayoko Kubo, Akira's fellow part-time worker and waitress at Garden

Shigeyuki Totsugi as Chihiro Kujō, Masami's old friend, and a novelist

Yō Yoshida as Tomoyo Tachibana, Akira's mother

Maika Yamamoto as Mizuki Kurata, a track star who has her sights set on Akira

Akira Nagai (live-action Teiichi no Kuni) is directing the film, with a script by Riko Sakaguchi (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Mary and The Witch's Flower).

The manga centers on 17-year-old high school student Akira Tachibana, a girl who barely expresses herself. She harbors a secret crush on Masami Kondō, the 45-year-old manager of the family restaurant she works at part-time.

Mayuzuki launched the manga in Shogakukan's Monthly Big Comic Spirits in 2014 and transferred to Weekly Big Comic Spirits in early 2016, where it serialized a new chapter every other week until it ended on March 19. Shogakukan will publish the manga's tenth and final volume on April 27. The manga has 1.9 million copies in print. Vertical has licensed the manga and will release it in five volumes beginning on September 25.

The manga was nominated for the ninth Manga Taisho awards in 2016, and was ranked #4 in the 2016 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.

The manga's 12-episode television anime adaptation premiered on January 11 on the Noitamina programming block on Fuji TV, and ended on March 30. The show streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime Video inside and outside of Japan, with the English title After the Rain.

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Live-Action Anitomo Film's Stills Highlight Jun Fukuyama

The official Instagram account for the live-action film and series adaptation of Modomu Akagawara's Anitomo (My Brother's Friend) manga revealed stills from the film last week featuring Jun Fukuyama's character, an original character named Haginosuke Tachibana. Haginosuke is the manager of the Happy Dogs dog cafe where Sota's younger sister Aki works part time. The character often gives Sōta advice on romance.

The film and drama both star Ryūsei Yokohama as Sōta (right in picture below), and Risaki Matsukaze (left) as Mai. Tsuyoshi Furukawa plays Yukihiro.

Kōdai Matsuoka (right in picture below) plays Itsuki Kaga, Sōta's handsome but oddball cousin. Karin One (left) plays Aki Nishino, Sōta's younger sister who is a video game otaku. (Note: Name romanizations are not official.)

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The live-action drama premiered on the Dramaism programming block on MBS on March 25, and on TBS on March 27, alongside the live-action series of Missions of Love. The film opens in Japan on May 26.

Cidergirl will perform the film's theme song "Palette."

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The romantic comedy manga centers on the relationship between old-fashioned and domestically minded high school girl Mai Nanase, and her brother's friend, the innocent late bloomer Sōta Nishino. Mai and her brother Yukihiro's room are adjacent to each other, with thin walls that allow them to overhear each other. The story begins when, one day, she overhears Sōta telling Yukihiro that he thinks Mai is cute.

Akagawara first published the manga as a one-shot in Hakusensha's The Hana to Yume magazine in January 2015 before launching it as a series in Hana to Yume that May. The manga was initially planned as a short serialization, but it is ongoing. Hakusensha published the manga's seventh compiled volume on January 19.

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Gibo to Musume no Blues 4-Panel Family Manga Gets Live-Action July Show

A live-action television series adaptation of Rin Sakurazawa's Gibo to Musume no Blues (A Stepmother and Daughter's Blues) manga has been green-lit. The show will premiere on TBS in July, and will air on Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m. Haruka Ayase (left in picture below) plays Akiko, while Yutaka Takenouchi (right) plays Ryōichi.

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The four-panel manga begins when Ryōichi Miyamoto, a divorcee and father of an 8-year-old daughter, proposes to and marries Akiko Iwaki, a career-minded 32-year-old woman. Now, with both unaccustomed to household tasks, they must learn on the fly as they raise their daughter.

Yūichirō Hirakawa and Yūji Nakamae are directing the series, while Yoshiko Morishita is penning the script.

Bunkasha published two compiled book volumes for the manga from 2011 to 2012.

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City Hunter Gets Spinoff Manga About Umibōzu

est em (IPPO, Age Called Blue) launched the City Hunter spinoff manga City Hunter Gaiden Ijuin Hayato-shi no Heion Naranu Nichijō (City Hunter Gaiden Mr. Hayato Ijuin's not peaceful life) on the manga website Comic Tatan of Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Zenon magazine on Sunday. The website opened on Sunday with nine manga, including three new titles.

The spinoff manga centers on the character Umibōzu from Tsukasa Hojo's original City Hunter manga. In the first chapter, titled "Bubbly Time," the Cat's Eye café's master Umibōzu listens and responds to the troubles of his customers. The series will run on the website on the third and fourth Sundays of every month, and the next chapter will debut on May 20.

The other two new manga on the website are Yua Kotegawa's Satsujin Purgatorium (Murderer's Purgatorium) and Satono Okazaki's Ihō no Ozwald (Other Land Ozwald). Satsujin Purgatorium centers on a 46-year-old hitman who dies with regret and wakes up as a 16-year-old boy again. The paranormal science-fiction romance Ihō no Ozwald centers on a boy who dreams of encountering intelligent extraterrestrial life and becomes the assistant of a nonconformist in the world of astronomy.

The remaining manga serializing on the website are works returning from Monthly Comic Zenon and its Web Comic Zenyon website. The series are Mizu Sahara's Okashira Tsuki., Akane Tamura's Mobko no Koi, Machita's Haru to Ao no Obentōbako, Fujiko Segawa's Kono Machi Kinema, Amidamuku's Meshi Numa., and Taco's 3-biki no Chiisana Neko o Shōkan Dekita nara. Molico Ross will also launch the Sake yo Hana, Sake! manga in May, and Ai Nimoda will launch a "gourmet project" in June.

Tsukasa's original City Hunter manga follows Ryō Saeba, a sniper and a private eye ("sweeper") based in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward with unrivaled marksmanship and an over-the-top obsession for the opposite sex. He serves as a bodyguard and other duties for his clients.

Hojo's 1985 manga inspired four television anime series, one anime film, and several video and television specials including a 2015 original anime DVD. ADV Films released most of these anime projects in North America. Jackie Chan starred in a 1993 Hong Kong live-action film that very loosely adapts the original manga. A Korean live-action television series adaptation premiered in 2011, and Hulu streamed this version in the United States.

Sunrise will produce a new anime film adaptation that will premiere in spring 2019. A French live-action film adaptation titled Nicky Larson (the French title of the City Hunter franchise) is underway. A separate Chinese live-action film adaptation has been green-lit for December 2018 or later in China.

Hojo's Angel Heart 2nd Season manga ended in May, and Sokura Nijiki launched a spinoff manga titled Kyō Kara City Hunter on July 25.

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