Top selling manga “Thermae Romae” is going to be made into a live-action film through Fuji TV. The film will star Abe Hiroshi (46) and Ueto Aya (25) and will be aimed to be released next year. It will be directed by Takeuchi Hideki and started shooting scenes in Italy.
“Thermae Romae” means “Rome’s Bath” and depicts the story …
Recently it was announced that Nakamura Hikaru’s unique romantic comedy manga “Arakawa Under the Bridge” – serialized in the Young GanGan magazine – will be turned into a live-action adaption starring Hayashi Kento and Kiritani Mirei.
“Arakawa Under the Bridge” is a story about Ichinomiya “Riku” Kou, a young upper-class man who tries to live a life without any …
We previously announced that popular idol group Kanjani8 would be releasing three new singles in three consecutive months.
Well, the group has just released a short PV’s for the first of their three singles “T.W.L / Yellow Pansy Street”.
“T.W.L” is currently being used as the theme song for the anime “Crayon Shin-chan” and “Yellow Pansy Street” will be used as …
Even though the movie “Paradise Kiss” (by Yazawa Ai) won’t be released until June 4th, the movie is already getting a spin-off, “Paradise Kiss: After School“.
Yukada Yuichi of “THE 3 People” will be doing the screenplay and storyline for the drama, which will be available via LISMO on au on May 6th.
The mobile drama is actually a prologue to the movie, …
Pop singer Misato Aki has just announced that she will be releasing a new single, titled “Spread Wings.”!
The single will hit stores just weeks from now on April 27th, and the title track has already been claimed as the opening theme for the video game-turned-anime “Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai”, which begins airing this month.
Check out the cover and track …
Every Little Thing tweeted via the group’s official Twitter that they will be singing “Sora” as the theme song for the two versions of the fourteenth film in the Pokemon anime series, “Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! The Movie: Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom” and “Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! The Movie: Victini and …
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of “Detective Conan: 15 Minutes of Silence“, the official site conducted a survey: Who is the most popular character?
Taking in 30.5% of the votes, Edogawa Conan (Kudo Shinichi) ranked #1 with 27,258 votes. Conan’s rival, Kaito Kid, snatched 2nd place with 19%, and Heiji Hattori, Conan’s best friend and rival, stole 3rd place with …
Rock band the pillows has announced that they will be providing the end theme song to the upcoming anime, “SKET DANCE”!
Their newest song “Comic Sonic” was written specifically for the anime, and will be released as a single on June 8th in both ‘CD+DVD’ and ‘CD-only’ versions. During one highly popular chapter of the original manga, the fictional …
Oricon has revealed its latest weekly comic chart for April 11th.
Check out the results after the cut!
Visual Kei rock band ViViD has announced that they will release their new single, “BLUE”, in the summer of this year.
The follow up to their major debut single, “[Yume] ~ MUGEN NO KATANA ~”, “BLUE” is the opening theme song to the newest season of the hit anime series, “BLEACH”, which premiered today on April 12th.
Vocalist Shin expressed, “I’m really happy about …
On May 18th, cro-magnon will release a collaboration album called “Otsu” in cooperation with NHK BS’s premium broadcast anime, “Hyouge Mono“.
This album will be a concept album featuring cover songs selected by “Hyouge Mono” original author Yamada Yoshihiro to fit the various characters. With cro-magnon covering Yazawa Eikichi’s “Jikan yo Tomare” as Oda Nobunaga’s theme, and Ishikawa Sayuri’s “Whiskey ga, …
Pop-rock singer Kita Shuhei will soon be releasing a song called “Sekai de Ichiban Koi Shite’ru“, which has just been confirmed as the new theme song for the anime, “Sekaiichi Hatsukoi”!
The song is said to be a catchy pop track with a highly memorable hook, while its coupling B-side, “Atarimae no You na Kiseki”, goes in the totally opposite direction …
Hirano Aya revealed on her official twitter Thursday that she has been banned from picking up any new anime roles ever since last year. Talking about the work she has planned for the current season, she wrote:
“This season’s new anime shows are somehow… the roles are really deep. Katja and Shizu…. And then there’s Lucy, and Garnet from Sunshine. Deep!
In …
Upcoming drama “Hancho 4 Jinnan-sho Azumi-han ~Seigi no Daishou~” (Every Monday at 8:00 PM on TBS), in which Sasaki Kuranosuke star, will get a manga adaptation through e-book!
Although there have been many live-action adaptations of manga, having it go the other way around is very rare. The comic version will be made based on the drama, and each episode of …
