New Free! TV Anime's Announcement Video Streamed

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Tokyo Alien Bros. Manga Gets Live-Action TV Series in July

NTV announced on Sunday that Keigo Shinzō's Tokyo Alien Bros. manga is getting a live-action television series that will premiere on July 23.

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The show will star Hey! Say! JUMP's Kei Inoo (live-action Peach Girl's Kairi Okayasu) as the younger brother Fuyunosuke (pictured left in image above), and A.B.C-Z's Shota Totsuka (Kono Koe wo Kimi ni, Bye Bye Blackbird) as the older brother Natsutaro (right). Michael Arias (Tekkonkinkreet, Harmony) and Shintarō Sugawara (Sekai Ichi Muzukashii Koi, Rental Kyūseishu) are directing the series, and Shō Kataoka (Kiiroi Zō, Natumi no Hotaru) is writing the scripts.

The sci-fi comedy manga follows Fuyunosuke and Natsutaro, two friendly students who are actually aliens sent to find out if Earth is a hospitable planet for their species.

Shinzō serialized the manga in Shogakukan's Monthly! Spirits magazine from 2015 to 2017. Shogakukan published the manga's third and final volume in March 2017.

The manga was nominated for Best Comic at the 45th Angoulême International Comics Festival this year.

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New Free! TV Anime's Announcement Video Streamed

Kyoto Animation began streaming the announcement video on Monday for the Free! anime franchise's new television anime series. The video originally debuted via the Sony Vision Shibuya screen at Tokyo's Shibuya district last October when Kyoto Animation announced the anime.

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The new anime premieres this summer.

The official website for the franchise announced on April 16 that the screenings for the show's unaired "episode 0' that are slated for June 23 will also screen the first episode of the new series.

Kyoto Animation's first Free! anime about the Iwatobi High School Swim Club premiered in July 2013, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. Discotek released the first season on DVD with English subtitles in North America in May 2015. Crunchyroll streamed an English dub of the first season in December 2015, and the company released the season with Funimation on both Blu-ray Disc and DVD in May 2017.

Free! Eternal Summer, the second television anime season, premiered in July 2014. Funimation streamed the second season as it aired, and released the series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in North America with an English dub in February 2016.

The High Speed! -Free! Starting Days- film, which was directly inspired by the High Speed! novel that had been loosely adapted into the original Free! television anime, opened in Japan in December 2015. Whereas the Free! anime centers on Haruka and the other swimmers during high school, High Speed! followed the characters during middle school.

The Free! -Timeless Medley- Kizuna compilation film opened in April 2017, and the second compilation film, Free! -Timeless Medley- Yakusoku, opened last July. Free! -Take Your Marks-, a sequel to the compilation films, opened in Japan last October. Funimation screened the film in U.S. theaters for one night on March 14.

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Live-Action Kakegurui Series Streams on Netflix

Netflix is streaming the live-action Kakegurui series in territories including the United States and the United Kingdom. In the U.S., the show is available with subtitles in English, Japanese, Spanish, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

The 10-episode show premiered in Japan on MBS on January 14, and on TBS on January 16. Tsutomu Hanabusa (Heroine Shikkaku, Asahinagu) directed the series.

The manga launched in Square Enix's Gangan Joker magazine in March 2014. Yen Press licensed the manga and describes the story:

Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!

The manga inspired a television anime series that ran from last July to September in Japan. The series premiered outside of Japan on Netflix in February. The anime is getting a second season.

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Ghibli's Joe Hisaishi Composes for In This Corner of the World Live-Action Series

The staff for the live-action television series adaptation of Fumiyo Kouno's In This Corner of the World (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni) manga unveiled the main cast and staff on Saturday. Joe Hisaishi (Studio Ghibli films) is composing the music, Nobuhiro Doi (Jūhan Shuttai!, Season of the Sun) is directing the series, and Yoshikazu Otada (Hyokko) is writing the script.

The cast includes:

Honoka Matsumoto as the protagonist Suzu

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Tohri Matsuzaka as Suzu's husband Shūsaku

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Sairi Itō as original character Sachiko Kariya

Kaho Tsuchimura as Shino Dōmoto, a housewife whose husband is at the front

Sayu Kubota as Suzu's younger sister Sumi

Machiko Ono as Shūsaku's older sister Keiko Kuromura

Tomorowo Taguchi as Shūsaku's father Entarō Hōjō

Ran Itō as Shūsaku's mother San Hōjō

Filming will take place from early May to early September. The series will premiere in July and air Sundays at 9:00 p.m.

Sunao Katabuchi (Black Lagoon, Mai Mai Miracle) previously wrote and directed an award-winning anime film of the manga produced by GENCO and MAPPA. The anime premiered in Japan in November 2016. Shout! Factory and Funimation Films screened the film in the United States and Canada last August. Funimation describes the story:

The award-winning story of IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD follows a young lady named Suzu Urano, who in 1944 moves to the small town of Kure in Hiroshima to live with her husband's family. Suzu's life is thrown into chaos when her town is bombed during World War II. Her perseverance and courage underpin this heart-warming and inspirational tale of the everyday challenges faced by the Japanese in the midst of a violent, war-torn country. This beautiful yet poignant tale shows that even in the face of adversity and loss, people can come together and rebuild their lives.

Before the anime film, the manga had already inspired a live-action television special that starred Keiko Kitagawa and aired on NTV in 2011 .

Kouno serialized the manga in Weekly Manga Action from 2007 to 2009, and Futabasha published three compiled book volumes for the manga. Seven Seas Entertainment released the manga last October.

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Yūnagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni), another Kouno manga that similarly centers on wartime events in Hiroshima, is also inspiring a live-action series adaptation this summer. The manga previously inspired a live-action film in 2007.

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Free! Dive to the Future Anime's Teaser Video Reveals Staff, Cast, July Premiere

Kyoto Animation began streaming a teaser video on Monday for Free! Dive to the Future, the Free! anime franchise's new television anime series. The video reveals the show's staff, cast, theme song artist, and July debut. The video teases the anime is a new chapter that will tell the "college student arc."

https://youtu.be/fCXaIXrIHWU

In the new series, Haruka, who is attending college in Tokyo, meets Asahi again and reawakens his memories from his middle school years, including those of Ikuya. Makoto is working toward a new dream while he is in Tokyo together with Haruka. Rin has an unexpected meeting in Sydney. As they await their new futures, will they see a new fight ahead? Or will they instead confront the past they left behind?

The returning cast includes:

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Haruka Nanase

Mamoru Miyano as Rin Matsuoka

Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Makoto Tachibana

Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Asahi Shiina

Kouki Uchiyama as Ikuya Kirishima

OLDCODEX will return to perform the show's opening theme song "Heading to Over."

Eisaku Kawanami, who served as a storyboarder and episode director for the two television anime series and director of the two compilation films and the Free! -Take Your Marks- film, is directing the series at Kyoto Animation and Animation DO. Masahiro Yokotani is returning to oversee the series scripts, and Futoshi Nishiya is returning as the character designer and chief animation director. Tatsuya Katō is also returning to compose the music.

Other returning staff members include:

Art Director: Shingo Kasai

3D Art: Joji Unoguchi

Color Design: Yūka Yoneda

Prop Design: Seiichi Akitake

Director of Photography: Kazuya Takao

3D Director: Yuji Shibata

Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka

Sound Production: Lantis

The anime will air on ABC TV, Tokyo MX 1, TV Aichi, and BS-11.

The official website for the franchise announced on April 16 that the screenings for the show's unaired "episode 0" that are slated for June 23 will also screen the first episode of the new series.

Kyoto Animation's first Free! anime about the Iwatobi High School Swim Club premiered in July 2013, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. Discotek released the first season on DVD with English subtitles in North America in May 2015. Crunchyroll streamed an English dub of the first season in December 2015, and the company released the season with Funimation on both Blu-ray Disc and DVD in May 2017.

Free! Eternal Summer, the second television anime season, premiered in July 2014. Funimation streamed the second season as it aired, and released the series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in North America with an English dub in February 2016.

The High Speed! -Free! Starting Days- film, which was directly inspired by the High Speed! novel that had been loosely adapted into the original Free! television anime, opened in Japan in December 2015. Whereas the Free! anime centers on Haruka and the other swimmers during high school, High Speed! followed the characters during middle school.

The Free! -Timeless Medley- Kizuna compilation film opened in April 2017, and the second compilation film, Free! -Timeless Medley- Yakusoku, opened last July. Free! -Take Your Marks-, a sequel to the compilation films, opened in Japan last October. Funimation screened the film in U.S. theaters for one night on March 14.

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