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New Japanese TV Drama About Manga Fan Who Loves Shipping Share Screenshot: Netflix Baki The Grappler is a manga (and anime, pictured) about dudes beating the crap out of each other in an underground material arts tournament. In 2019, sociologist Junko Kaneda wrote a book about viewing it through a Boys’ Love lens. It’s now being adapted into a live-action TV series in Japan. Boys’ Love (BL) manga depict homoerotic relationships, and the genre is best known as “yaoi” outside Japan. Ba...

U.S.-made live-action Hello Kitty movie on the way Mar. 6 06:00 am JST Mar. 6 | 06:27 am JST TOKYO Hello Kitty is the hardest working cat in show business, and the Sanrio star is on her way to becoming a Hollywood one as well. Warner Bros Entertainment’s California-based New Line Cinema has just announced who’ll be helming Kitty-chan’s first-ever U.S.-produced, and first-ever live-action, movie. Making up one half of the co-directing duo is Jennifer Coyle, whos...

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Announces New OVA My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU has announced a new OVA is on the way! Wataru Watari and Ponkan8s original light novel franchise, My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected, might have come to an end last year but it seems the franchise is poised to continue. Although the third season of the anime adaptation brought the series to an end with Announced during the special Oregairu Fes -FINAL- event in Japan, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Cli...

© Tsubasa Yamaguchi / Kodansha / Blue Period Production Committee Fans of artistic anime have something to look forward to later this year as  The Blue Period manga is in the midst of being adapted into an anime series. The project doesn’t have any details with the cast or staff yet but has confirmed a 2021 arrival according to its surfacing in the latest Comic Natalie update. The key visual to the right was produced for the announcement by the original mangaka. The series comes from Tsubas...

Netflix’s newest anime live-action adaptation is Yu Yu Hakusho Dec. 20, 2020 06:00 am JST Dec. 20, 2020 | 06:45 am JST TOKYO For a good chunk of the 1990s, "Yu Yu Hakusho" was one of the biggest hits in the anime/manga world. The story of undead teenage delinquent Yusuke and his supernatural atrial arts battles, "Yu Yu Hakusho" took the "Demon Slayer: Kietsu no Yaiba" route and wrapped up in a timely fashion near the peak of its popularity, but along the way the origi...

Netflix Announces Live-Action ‘Yu Yu Hakusho’ Series A live-action adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi’s classic series “Yu Yu Hakusho” is coming to Netflix as it celebrates its 30th anniversary. Netflix’s content acquisition director, Kazutaka Sakamoto, will executively produce the popular 1990s series that sold millions of copies in Japan alone. Akira Morii of “Wild 7” and “Brave Heart Umizaru” will produce at visual effects company Robot, according to Comic Natalie via Anime ...