Live action Full Metal Panic! in the works
Yippee. And the crap just doesn’t seem to let up. This year is really going to be an un-sugoi year for live action versions of popular manga and anime. Dragonball was crap. Chun Li was crap. Now news has it that they’re making a live action version of Full Metal Panic!. Reports say that Mandalay Pictures acquired the theatrical rights series. For those not familiar with FMP!, it’s basically about a sergeant who goes...
He-Man Film Adaptation
More movie news! He-Man to be a live action movie. I’ve searched around and only got reports of “still in the talks” and no actual green lights yet. A review site, however, got hold of “the” draft by Justin Marks (Green Arrow) and gave it two thumbs up. Quoting from Latino Review: What is GRAYSKULL about? We get both the origin of HE-MAN (or HE-MAN BEGINS), the origin of SKELETOR, and the origin of THE...
Guess which drama is coming this July
The pilot for this new J drama based on a popular shoujo manga will be aired on July 3. So those who have the means to view this through the net, it shows in Japan every Tuesday at 21:00 on Fuji TV. It will star these three lovely people: Oh, am I forgetting something? Photo from Amazon.com Yes. I am not kidding. It’s confirmed! Hana Kimi or Hanazakari no Kimitachi e will now be a live action fantasy come true. I’m sure...
There’s a drama plot!
According to Tokyograph.com, Misaki Itou, a.k.a. Hermes in the infamous J-drama Densha Otoko, is slated to star in a new drama coming out in July. Based on a seinen manga by Atsuko Takakura, Yama Onna Kabe Onna (yama=mountain and kabe=wall) is about a flat-chested girl (kabe onna) who is teased about at the department store where she works. Things become worse (especially for her ego) when a well-endowed girl (yama onna) starts to...
Blood the Last Vampire live action
2008 will see the premiere of the live-action adaptation of Production I.G. ‘s Blood the Last Vampire. This is under the helm of French director Chris Nahon and My Sassy Girl’s Ji-Hyun Jun will star as Saya, the stoic and mysterious Teropterid slayer. Image is DVD cover of Blood the Last Vampire taken from Wikipedia.