Manga News

One Piece is going on a one month hiatus

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Eri Takenashi's magic girlfriend Kannagi will be returning to Monthly Comic Rex

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Ken Akamatsu will be bring back Love Hina for a one shot in Weekly Shonen Magazine

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Following the cancellation of Comic Bunch, Tsukasa Hojo's City Hunter spin-off Angel Heart will move to Comic Zenon 

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A look at the new version of Tezuka's Marvelous Melvo

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Yukito Kishiro blogged that following his fall out with his editor, he will be moving Battle Angel Alita: Last Order from Ulta Jump to Kodansha's Evening

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Bisco Hatori will be concluding Ouran High School Host Club in the next issue of LaLa

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Masahiro Totsuka and Aguri Igarashi's kendo manga Bamboo Blade will be ending in the next issue of Young Gangan

Live Action
Ai Yazawa's (Nana) fashion manga Paradise Kiss will be adapted into a live action film. Cast includes Keiko Kitagawa (live-action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon's Sailor Mars, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift's Reiko), Osamu Mukai (Honey and Clover, Nodame Cantabile, Mei-chan no Shitsuji, Beck), Natsuki Kato, Aya Omasa, Kento Kaku, Shunji Igarashi, and Yusuke Yamamoto.

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Takashi Murakami's manga Hoshi Mamoru Inu will be adapted into a live action movie

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Hana Yori Dango's Shun Oguri and Mao Inoue will star in a TV dreama adaptation of manga series Veterinarian Dolittle

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A third live action TV action of Akira Nagai and Taro Nogizaka's Iryu - Team Medical Dragon will hit Japanese TV in October

Misc

The all female Takarazuka Revue will be performing a stage musical adaptation of Riko Miyagi's popular manga series "Mei-chan no Shitsuji"

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the CD BECK OFFICIAL INSPIRED BY ... is being release in conjuction with the live action adaption of rock manga Beck,

The disc will feature
BECK playlist of the movie ? OFFICIAL INSPIRED BY ...
01. 01. OASIS / Don't Look Back In Anger Oasis / Do not Look Back In Anger
02. 02. Rage Against The Machine / Guerrilla Radio Rage Against The Machine / Guerrilla Radio
03. 03. The Offspring / Come Out and Play The Offspring / Come Out and Play
04. 04. The Clash / I Fought The Law The Clash / I Fought The Law
05. 05. The Black Crowes / Remedy The Black Crowes / Remedy
06. 06. Alice In Chains/ Man In The Box Alice In Chains / Man In The Box
07. 07. Travis / Why Does It Always Rain On Me Travis / Why Does It Always Rain On Me
08. 08. Manic Street Preachers / Motorcycle Emptiness Manic Street Preachers / Motorcycle Emptiness
09. Lauryn Hill / Doo Wop (That Thing) 09. Lauryn Hill / Doo Wop (That Thing)
10. 10. Bob Dylan / Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan / Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. 11. Kula Shaker / Hush Kula Shaker / Hush
12. 12. Fiona Apple / Criminal Fiona Apple / Criminal
13. 13. Jimi Hendrix / All Along The Watchtower Jimi Hendrix / All Along The Watchtower
14.Janis Joplin / Move Over 14.Janis Joplin / Move Over
15. 15. Jeff Buckley / Hallelujah Jeff Buckley / Hallelujah
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16. 16. OASIS / I Am The Walrus(Live) OASIS / I Am The Walrus (Live)

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Vermilion Pleasure Night/The Fuccons creator Yoshimasa Ishibashi will have new video exhibition at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art in Hamamachi Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture titled "SickeTel: Ishibashi Yoshimasa and KyupiKyupi"