Manga-related Adaptation News from AugustBelow is a round-up of all the manga-related adaptation news announcements for the first half of August: - The Prince of Tennis will be adapted into a live-action drama in China. - VIZ Pictures has announced plans to release a Lovely Complex live-action movie in the spring of 2008. - Shigeshoshi by Mitsukazu Mihara (DOLL), known as The Embalmer in the U.S., will be adapted into a live-action television drama. - Ai no Kotodama by Keiko Konno, released in the U.S. as Words of Devotion, will be adapted into a live-action movie this fall. - A live-action adaptation of Mousou Shoujo Otaku Kei by Natsumi Konjoh will be released this fall. - The cast of the live-action drama adaptation of Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers) are getting together for a new movie next summer. - According to Kadokawa Shoten's Asuka Ciel, Shinobu Gotou's Takumi-kun series of boys-love novels will be adapted into a live-action film. - Two manga, ChocoMimi by Konami Sonoda and Fuma no Kojiro by Masami Kurumada, are being made into television dramas. |
Manga ZombieComiPress teams up with writer Udagawa Takeo and translator John Gallagher to publish an online version of the English-language translation of Manga Zombie. Finale: PanelosophyPanelosophy - Recession Special An ongoing conversation about the philosophy behind manga both in the U.S. and abroad. Manga RankingTop Manga Series and Volumes for March 2009 Monthly charts of comparative manga rankings based on aggregate online sales listings from Matt Blind. |