©Courtesy of Viz Media VIZ Media and Marvel Comics have agreed to collaborate on a project that will make Marvel’s content available to VIZ subscribers. Under the aegis of VIZ Media, the VIZ Manga service provides access to content in the English-speaking world. At the moment, it has an inventory of some 10,000 chapters, which…
The Japanese anime producer Koichiro Ito was arrested this week by Wakayama police and charged with soliciting nude images of a 15-year-old girl from Nagano he met online. The alleged incident occurred in September of 2021. According to the Mainichi Shimbun, the 52-year-old Ito admitted he knew the young woman was a minor. “I had…
Destin Daniel Cretton will be writing and directing a live-action film for Lionsgate based on Naruto, the popular manga character. Cretton recently cowrote and directed Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings for Marvel Studios. He will be producing the Naruto project through his Hisako company, along with Jeyun Mumford. Also involved with the…
Netflix is planning to screen what is being called “a complete remake” of One Piece, the classic manga and anime series by Eiichiro Oda—but not all his fans are happy. The new version, to be titled The One Piece, is being created by WIT Studio, who gave us Spy x Family and Attack on Titan….
@Shueisha Plans are moving forward for a live-action film adaptation of My Hero Academia, the blockbuster manga/anime series. Legendary Entertainment, which acquired the rights five years ago, has signed on as producers, which will mark the English-language debut for filmmaker Shinsuke Sato. The screenplay will be written by Joby Harold, who has authored Army of…
Pluto, is an animated sci-fi Netflix series that adapts the eponymous manga by authors Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, almost fourteen years after its manga run came to an end. The anime directed by Toshio Kawauchi, has Masao Maruyama, Taro Maki, and Yuji Yamano as Executive Producers. Whilst Takahiro Miyata served as the CG and…
Netflix has offered a preview of its upcoming Yu Yu Hakusho live-action series scheduled to make its worldwide debut on December 14. The preview was included in a trailer for Netflix’s Geeked Week 2023, which will take place from November 6 to 12. online pharmacy neurontin over the counter with best prices today in the…
Taika Waititi may finally be bringing the long-awaited live-action Akira movie to a screen near you. The news was broken this week by Justin Kroll of Deadline, who tweeted that the project will still need to pass final approval protocols before it can go into production, however. But there seems to be reason for optimism…
Junji Ito’s Bloodsucking Darkness manga series is about to be developed into a live-action feature film, says Fangoria Studios. Jeff Howard, whose credits include Midnight Mass, Oculus, and The Haunting of Hill House, has been tapped to do the honors as scriptwriter. A director has not yet been selected for the film. Bloodsucking Darkness will…
Leiji Matsumoto, one of the pioneering giants of the manga and anime genres, died in a Tokyo hospital on February 13 at the age of 85. Acute heart failure was listed as the cause of death. In announcing his death, Matsumoto’s daughter Makiko, issued a statement saying that he “set out on a journey to…
Though it’s been more than thirty years since the release of Katsuhiro Otomo’s groundbreaking anime film Akira, a Hollywood live-action remake is still in development. Among the many filmmakers who’ve been involved with the on-again-off-again project over the decades include Leonardo di Caprio, Keanu Reeves, the Hughes Brothers, Steve Norrington, Pitolf, Ruairi Robinson, Albert Hughes,…
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