One Piece Anime Casts Fumi Hirano as Mother Carmel

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Sony, Nintendo Update Warranty Policies After FTC Warning

Sony and Nintendo both updated their warranty statements for the United States and Canada this week following a warning from the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Both companies' statements previously said that their warranties would not apply if a product was used with a third-party peripheral (such as an adapter or power supply). They now specify that the warranties will not apply only if these third party products caused the damage.

Sony also removed a clause saying that the warranty would not apply if the warranty seal had been altered or removed. The company replaced this with a stipulation that the warranty will not apply "to damage caused by opening the product or to damage caused by service performed by someone other than a representative of SIE [Sony Interactive Entertainment] or an SIE-authorized service provider."

The FTC announced last month that it issued a warning to six companies — including Sony and Nintendo — about questionable language in the companies' statements regarding consumers voiding warranties when breaking stickers on the product, or when using parts or products not sold by the companies themselves. The FTC cautioned that such language is prohibited by the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, unless the companies themselves provide such parts or services for free, or are waived by the FTC.

The FTC asked the companies to review their promotional and warranty materials, and revise their practices to comply with the law. The FTC said it would review the companies' websites after 30 days, and warned, "failure to correct any potential violations may result in law enforcement action."

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One Piece Anime Casts Fumi Hirano as Mother Carmel

The official website for the One Piece franchise announced on Friday that Fumi Hirano (Urusei Yatsura's Lum, Detective Conan's Rumi Wakasa) will play Mother Carmel in the series, starting with the show's 836th episode on Sunday. The episode will center on the childhood past of Big Mom.

The One Piece anime entered the current "Whole Cake Island" arc with the 783rd episode in April 2017, and is currently in the "Tea Party From Hell" part of the arc. Namie Amuro debuted the current opening theme song for the series last year on October 1.

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2nd Joker Game Stage Play Reveals Visual, More Cast

The official Twitter account for the second stage play adaptation of Production I.G's Joker Game spy anime series revealed three additional cast members on Monday. The Twitter account then revealed two more cast members as well as a new visual on Friday.

The new cast members include:

Yōjirō Murata as Joseph Goebbels

Akinori Iwasawa as Hermann Göring

Seshiru Daigo as Leni Riefenstahl

Kazuoki as Ernest Graham

Kazuya Suma as Kiichirō Shirahata

The new cast joins the previously announced cast members, all returning from the previous stage play, including:

Yūya Kido as Jitsui

Ikkei Yamamoto as Amari

Chihiro Okutani as Tazaki

Gaku Matsumoto as Hatano

Kōji Saikawa as Kaminaga

Takeshi Maeda as Fukumoto

Masashi Gōda as Akimasa Kazato

Yūki Kimisawa as Jirō Kamō

Yuya Miyashita as Gorō Itsumi

Shogo Suzuki as Miyoshi

Masashi Taniguchi as Lieutenant Colonel Yūki

The play will run at the Theater 1010 in Tokyo from June 14 to 20, and at the Mielparque Hall in Osaka from June 23 to 26.

The previous stage play adaptation ran in May 2017.

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The anime itself is an adaptation of Kōji Yanagi's novel of the same name. The original novel is set in 1937, before World War II begins in earnest. Lieutenant Colonel Yūki of the Imperial Japanese Army forms the "D Agency," an army intelligence outfit under his command and tutelage. Army General Staff attaches Lieutenant Sakuma to observe the unit's performance. D Agency casts a wide net to find agents beyond Japanese military personnel, and Yūki establishes D Agency's tenets, which go against IJA doctrine: "Don't kill, don't get killed, don't get captured." With this, Yūki trains a team of operatives who conduct missions against domestic and foreign powers.

Production I.G's television anime adaptation of the novel premiered in April 2016. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan, and Funimation streamed an English dub for the anime.

Subaru Nitō launched a manga adaptation of the anime in Mag Garden's Comic Garden magazine in February 2016, and ended it on January 5. Mag Garden published the manga's fifth and final compiled book volume on March 10.

Yanagi published the original Joker Game novel in 2008. The novel won the Nihon Suiri Sakka Kyōkai-shō (Mystery Writers of Japan) award in 2009. Yū Irie directed a live-action adaptation of the novel, which premiered in Japan in January 2015. Yanagi followed up the original novel with three sequel novels — titled Double Joker, Paradise Lost, and Last Waltz — in 2009, 2012, and 2015, respectively. The series has more than 1 million copies in print.

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Live-Action Gintama 2 Film's Visual Shows Jiro Sato in Mystery Role

The official website for the upcoming sequel film Gintama 2 (Kari) (Gintama 2 (Working Title)) posted a visual featuring Jiro Sato in his as-yet-unspecified role on Friday. The visual is a parody of The Godfather Part II.

Sato played Takechi Henpeita in the first film, but will play a different role in the sequel.

The film opens in Japan on August 17.

Shun Oguri, Masaki Suda, and Kanna Hashimoto are returning from the first film to reprise their roles as Gintoki Sakata, Shinpachi Shimura, and Kagura, respectively.

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The first film opened in Japan last July, and it earned 980 million yen (US$8.9 million) in its first four days. The film also inspired a live-action net show that debuted on Docomo's dTV streaming service one day after the film's opening. The film had its Canadian premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival last July, and Azoland Pictures screened the film in the United States and Canada starting on January 19.

Well Go USA released the first film on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and DVD combo pack, and Digital HD on March 6.

Hideaki Sorachi began the manga in 2004 and it continues to be ranked among the top-selling manga in Japan. The manga has more than 50 million copies in print in Japan. Viz Media published the first 23 volumes in English. Shueisha published the manga's 72nd volume on March 2. The manga reached the "climax" of its final arc in February.

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