The official website for Love&Art’s surfing-themed project WAVE!! began streaming the first three minutes of the first film in the WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! anime film trilogy. The trilogy’s three parts will open one after another on October 2, October 16, and October 30. The project’s story is set in the city of Ōarai in Ibaraki prefecture, and […]
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The official website for Gintama The Final, the new anime film of Hideaki Sorachi‘s Gintama manga, unveiled line art designs for Yorozuya characters Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura. The website also announced a Gintama episode fan popularity poll to celebrate the film’s release. Staff chose a selection of 77 episodes from the anime series’ previous 367 episodes and two films. […]
Murata Mayu‘s Honey Lemon Soda manga is getting a live-action film adaptation starring Snow Man male idol group member Raul. Raul will play Kai Miura, a young man with trademark lemon-coloured hair who seems cold but in truth is very kind. Costarring in the film is Ai Yoshikawa as Uka Ishimori. Kōji Shintoku (live-action Peach […]
Hong Kong film distributor Neofilms began streaming a Chinese-subtitled trailer for its screening of Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet, the first film in the two-part theatrical anime adaptation of Yuichiro Higashide‘s Date A Live Fragment: Date A Bullet spinoff novels. Neofilms will open in Hong Kong on September 24. Neofilms did not reveal if it has also licensed Date A […]
J.C. Staff and Funimation announced on Thursday, Sept 10 that they are co-producing an original anime film titled Sing a Bit of Harmony (Ai no Utagoe o Kikasete) by Time of Eve and Patema Inverted director Yasuhiro Yoshiura. The film will open in Japan in 2021, and is “coming soon” to the United States and Canada. Funimation describes […]
Toei announced that the double-feature films Gekijō-ban Kamen Rider Zero-One/Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie will debut separately due to production delays caused by the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Gekijō-ban Kamen Rider Zero-One will open on December 18 and Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie will be delayed to early 2021. The films were previously slated to open on July […]
The official Twitter account for the live-action film adaptation of Yamashita Tomoko‘s Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru (The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window) boys-love manga announced on Monday, Aug 31 that the film is delayed until 2021 due to the effects of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The film was […]
The staff of the first live-action film based on Kawamoto Homura and Naomura Tōru‘s Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler manga revealed that the film is getting a sequel that will open in Japan in 2021. The film is temporarily titled Eiga Kakegurui Part2. The sequel will include a returning cast. Hanabusa Tsutomu is returning to […]