The Promised Neverland Manga Gets Live-Action Film in Winter 2020

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The Promised Neverland Manga Gets Live-Action Film in Winter 2020

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19-year-old actress Minami Hamabe (live-action anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day special's Menma, live-action Saki film's title role, Hello World film's Ruri Ichigyō) is starring in a live-action film adaptation of Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's The Promised Neverland manga, and the film will open in winter 2020. Hamabe plays Emma (center in photograph below), and Yūichirō Hirakawa (live-action ERASED film, live-action Rookies series) is directing. 13-year-old Jyo Kairi (live-action My Little Monster and ERASED) and 17-year-old Rihito Itagaki (Show By Rock!! stage musical) play Ray (right) and Norman (left), respectively.

The film will shift the story's rule about orphans having to "ship" at the age of 12 to the age of 16. Hamabe is a self-professed fan of the manga who bought the print volumes and the e-book version, and she complimented the director and the staff for realizing the story's world. She vowed to do her best for everyone who loved the manga.

Viz Media publishes the original manga in North America, and it describes the story:

Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at the Grace Field House orphanage. And under the care of the woman they refer to as “Mom,” all the kids have enjoyed a comfortable life. Good food, clean clothes and the perfect environment to learn—what more could an orphan ask for? One day, though, Emma and Norman uncover the dark truth of the outside world they are forbidden from seeing.

Shirai and Demizu launched The Promised Neverland manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in August 2016, and the series has entered its final arc as of September 2018. Shirai had stated in an interview in August 2018 that Shirai would like the story to "not extend too much" in accordance with the story's editor, adding that the length of the manga should be "ideally 20 to 30 volumes long." The magazine teased in August that the manga has entered the "climax" of the final arc.

Shueisha published the manga's 15th volume in Japan on August 2. Viz Media publishes the manga in North America.

The manga won the Best Shōnen Manga award at the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Awards in January, was nominated for the 11th Manga Taisho awards in January, and was nominated for the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in February. The series also topped the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook's list of manga for male readers last December.

An anime adaptation premiered on January 10. Aniplex of America streamed the anime on Crunchyroll, Hulu, Funimation, and HIDIVE as it aired. Toonami began airing the anime on April 13. A second season of the anime will premiere in 2020.

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Shinmai Shimai no Futari Gohan Live-Action Series Casts Mei Tanaka, Haruka Imō

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The official website for the live-action series adaptation of Yutaka Hiiragi's Shinmai Shimai no Futari Gohan (The Sisters' Meal for Two) manga revealed two new cast members for the series on Friday. Mei Tanaka plays Eri, Sachi's childhood friend and classmate. Haruka Imō plays Nao, a girl who likes literature and is Ayari's first friend.

The site also revealed a new visual showing Anna Yamada as older sister Sachi (right in image below) and Karen Otomo as younger sister Ayari (left in picture below).

The series will premiere on TV Tokyo's "MokuDora 25" programming block on October 10. Kentarō Moriya, Hiroaki Yuasa, and Kenji Kuwajima are directing the series, with scripts by Erika Seki, Yūki Imanishi, and Hikaru Sōma.

The manga centers on the girls Sachi and Ayari who become sisters due to their parents' marriage. The two bond over cooking and eating. Sachi is bad at cooking, but loves to eat anything delicious. Ayari is introverted but is intensely passionate about anything related to cooking.

Hiiragi launched the manga in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine in June 2015. Kadokawa published the manga's sixth compiled book volume on January 25.

Yen Press published the yuri anthology manga Éclair: A Girls' Love Anthology That Resonates in Your Heart in June 2018, and it includes a short manga by Hiiragi.

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Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo Stage Play Reveals 5 Character Visuals

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The official website for the stage play adaptation of GONZO's television anime Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo revealed photos of five cast members in costume on Saturday. The cast includes:

Masashi Taniguchi as Edmont Dantes/The Count of Monte Cristo

Shōhei Hashimoto as Albert de Morcerf

Hidenori Tokuyma as Fernand de Morcerf

Kyōko Tōyama as Mercédès de Morcerf

Yō Maejima as Franz d'Epinay

Other cast members include:

Moeki Koizumi as Claire-Marie-Eugénie de Danglars

Miori Ichikawa as Haydée

Junya Komatsu as Andrea Cavalcanti

Kōsuke Asuma as Maximilien Morrel

Hiroyuki Ōno as Peppo

Miku Tanabe as Valentine de Villefort

Ryō Kumagai as Lucien Debray

Yasuhisa Katō as Giovanni Bertuccio

Yōjirō Murata as Baron Danglars

Ryōko Tanaka as Victoria de Danglars

Kei Hosogai as Gérard de Villefort

The play will run from December 20 to 28 at the Kokumin Kyōsai coop Hall/Space Zero venue in Tokyo. Yū Murai (director of Karakuri Circus stage play) is writing and directing the Gankutsuou play, and the anime's co-creator/director/original character designer Mahiro Maeda is collaborating on the stage production with Taichi Hashimoto (revisions, Speed Grapher). Playwright Chūji Mikasano (Tokyo Ghoul, Touken Ranbu) is serving as the production's dramaturge.

The 2004-2005 television anime re-imagined The Count of Monte Cristo novel by Alexandre Dumas by setting the classic story of revenge and deception in a surreal fantasy future version of Paris. Albert, the son of a renowned general, meets the enigmatic Count of Monte Cristo during a festival on Luna. Albert invites the beguiling count back to Paris. Unbeknownst to Albert, his father had once framed the count and destroyed the count's personal and public life. What follows is a dark passage for Albert as he discovers the depths of the past wrongs and the lengths that the count is willing to go to avenge himself.

Geneon Entertainment and Funimation both released the anime series in North America. Del Rey published Maeda's tie-in manga in English.

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Live-Action Sazae-san TV Special Brings Back 8th Family Member After 65 Years

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The official Twitter account for the 50th anniversary special of the family television anime Sazae-san revealed on Monday that Hiyori Sakurada (seen below) will play the character Hitode Fuguta in the special's live-action segment. In the manga, Hitode is Sazae's daughter and Tarao's younger sister, who only appeared in one chapter of the manga (when each chapter was only one panel in length) in 1954. That manga panel showed the family 10 years in the future.

The live-action segment's cast members (including Sakurada) include (from left to right in image above):

Yoshie Ichige as Fune

Masatō Ibu as Namihei

Gaku Hamada as Katsuo

Yūki Amami as Sazae

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Masuo

Mayu Matsuoka as Wakame

Ryō Narita as Tarao

Hiyori Sakurada as Hitode Fuguta

The special will premiere on November 24, and will air for three and a half hours on Fuji TV. Masayuki Suzuki is directing the live-action segment, and Tomoko Akutsu is penning the script.

The live-action segment will depict the family 20 years into the future. This segment serves as a follow-up to the September 2018 sequel stage play that imagines the family 10 years into the future.

The anime segment of the special will bring in fantasy elements as it depicts the past of Sazae's family, as well as a family trip. Earlier this year, the staff chose 28 families from Tokyo's Asahigaoka district (the setting of the Sazae-san story) to be animated into the series, and this anniversary special's anime segment will feature three of those families. These families' names will even appear in the anime segment.

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Nobuyuki Fukumoto's 'Ten' Manga Gets Live-Action Sequel Series

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TV Tokyo revealed on Friday that the live-action series adaptation of Nobuyuki Fukumoto's Ten: Tenhō Dōri no Kaidanji manga is receiving a sequel that will premiere on TV Tokyo at the end of 2019. Goro Kishitani (seen below) reprises his role as protagonist Takashi Ten.

Other returning cast members include:

Yūki Furukawa as Hiroyuki Igawa

Eisaku Yoshida as Shigeru Akagi

Yoji Tanaka as Ginji Asai

Hidetoshi Hoshida as Ken Igarashi

Denden as Mitsui Soga

Kouji Matoba as Katsumi Harada

Ryosei Tayama as Shūzō Kanamitsu

The drama will reunite the staff for the live-action series adaptation of Fukumoto's Gin to Kin manga. The staff members also worked on the previous live-action Ten: Tenhō Dōri no Kaidanji series.

The manga begins when Hiroyuki Igawa, a mahjong player who makes money by betting against amateurs, meets Takashi Ten, an opponent with a lot of skill and strength of will. The manga serialized from 1989 to 2002 in Takeshobo's Kindai Mahjong magazine.

The first live-action series premiered in October 2018.

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