Anime & Manga
Irodori Aqua Begins Printing Venture with Yamato Nadeshiko’s My Wife Is an Oni Manga’s English Launch
Company ships 1st 2 volumes in May 2023
Irodori Comics‘ Irodori Aqua indie manga label announced on Wednesday that it will begin printing books beginning with the first two English volumes of Yamato Nadeshiko’s My Wife Is an Oni (Oniyome to Kekkon Shite Shimatta Kekka) manga in May 2023. Each volume will consist of 26 pages.
The company will print a limited quantity of each volume with no plans for reprints. The manga volumes are currently available for pre-order.
Nadeshiko launched the manga in Kadokawa‘s Comic Flapper magazine in 2018. Kadokawa published the manga’s second compiled book volume in October 2020.
Japanese dōjinshi publisher Irodori Comics launched the IRODORI Aqua label for non-erotic manga in December 2019. The first four digital titles released under the label were Hiroyuki’s “Two-Timing Fair and Square” and “Of Girls, Love, and Money,” Yoimachi Meme‘s “Raincoat Kids and the Splish-Splash City,” and Yuuki Satou’s “Love Letter for My Love Then and Now.”
Source: Press release
Entertainment news magazine Variety reported on Sunday that Drops of God, the new internationally co-produced, multilingual live-action television series of Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto‘s The Drops of God (Kami no Shizuku) manga, will premiere on April 21.
Apple TV+ has acquired the eight-part series and will broadcast and stream it worldwide simultaneously in 2023.
The official title in Japan is Kami no Shizuku/Drops of God. (Similar to the title in Japan for the second Fullmetal Alchemist television series, the live-action series’ title includes both the Japanese and English titles of the manga.)
Legendary Television is handling worldwide distribution outside of France and Japan. Hulu Japan will exclusively stream the series inside Japan alongside its world premiere. The series filmed over 10 months in France, Italy, and Japan.
The series is a collaboration between U.S., French, and Japanese companies. Legendary Television, Dynamic Television, France Televisions, and Hulu Japan are backing the project, and are producing the project with Adline Entertainment. Oded Ruskin (Absentia, No Man’s Land) is directing the series, and Quoc Dang Tran (Marianne, Parallel) wrote the scripts. Dynamic’s Klaus Zimmermann (Borgia, Trapped) is producing the series.
As previously announced, Tomohisa Yamashita (pictured left) and French actress Fleur Geffrier (Elle) star in the series. The announcement noted that Geffrier’s character is named Shizuku Kanzaki, the protagonist of the manga. A previous announcement noted that rival character Issei Tōmine would be the show’s protagonist, but an earlier report in 2021 from entertainment news service Variety described the series as having a female protagonist, with Geffrier playing the role.
Variety describes the story of the TV series:
The story involves a woman who discovers that her estranged father has left her the world’s greatest wine collection in his will. But, to claim her inheritance she must compete against a Japanese man who her father regarded as a son and may have been more.
Siblings Shin and Yuko Kibayashi — under the pen name Tadashi Agi — launched The Drops of God manga with artist Okimoto in Kodansha‘s Morning magazine 2004. A live-action series based on the manga aired in Japan in 2009. The manga ended in June 2014, and the 44th and final compiled book volume shipped in July 2014. The manga’s final arc, titled Marriage ~Kami no Shizuku Saishūshō~ (Marriage ~The Drops of God Final Arc~), launched in May 2015, and it ended in October 2020.
Comixology and Kodansha USA Publishing have released the manga in English digitally.
Throughout its serialization, the manga had famously boosted the sales of wines profiled in the story. The French wine magazine La Revue du vin de France has recognized the manga, giving it the magazine’s top award in 2010. The New York Times also profiled the manga in its Dining and Wine section in 2008.
Source: Variety (Marta Balaga)
New visual also revealed
The official website for Tōsōchū: The Great Mission, an anime inspired by the Fuji TV game show run for money Tōsōchū (known as Run for the Money in English), revealed the show’s promotional video on Monday. The video previews fhána‘s opening theme song “Runaway World.”
The website also revealed a new visual from original character designer Takeshi Okano.
The series will premiere on April 2.
The previously revealed cast includes: (Note: English name romanizations not confirmed)
Yukio Kaizawa (Digimon Tamers) and Kōhei Kureta (One Piece, Kirakira Precure a la Mode) are directing the anime at Toei Animation. Yōichi Ōnishi is designing the characters based on original art by Takeshi Okano (Jigoku Sensei Nube). Kotaro Nakagawa (Code Geass) is composing the music. Ayaka Kami and Kentaro Akiyama (Revue Starlight) are the art directors. Kenji Fukuda is handling the art setting. Shōhei Tamura is in charge of 3D stage design.
Boys group AB6IX is performing the ending theme song “Fly Away.”
The anime is set in the future when humanity has migrated to the Moon due to Earth’s climate change. The anime incorporates its own elements such as the human drama of survival on a diverse field that blurs countries and eras such as Shibuya, Edo-period Japan, and London.
The game show has been airing irregularly on Fuji TV since 2004. The “runaway” contestants try to survive in theme parks, shopping centers, and other venues to earn cash as “hunters” pursue them. The show has already inspired stage productions, publications, and a Netflix release.
Sources: Tōsōchū: The Great Mission anime’s website (link 2), Comic Natalie
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