Anime & Manga
Live-Action Insomniacs After School Film Reveals More Cast, June 23 Debut
Haruka Kudō, Yōichirō Saitō, more join cast
The official website for the live-action film of Makoto Ojiro‘s Insomniacs After School (Kimi wa Hōkago Insomnia) manga revealed more cast and the film’s June 23 debut on Saturday.
The new cast includes: (left to right in top row and then in bottom row)
- Haruka Kudō as Saya Magari, Isaki’s older sister
- Yōichirō Saitō as Isaki’s father
- Tomoko Tabata as the mother of Isaki’s childhood friend
- Denden as the director of a historical archive
- MEGUMI as Isaki’s mother
- Masato Hagiwara as Ganta’s father
The film stars:
- Nana Mori as Isaki Magari
- Daiken Okudaira as Ganta Nakami
- Yuki Sakurai as Usako Kurashiki
- Minori Hagiwara as Yui Shiromaru
- Kaisei Kamimura as Tao Ukegawa
- Seira Anzai as Kanami Anamizu
- Rico Nagase as Motoko Kanikawa
- Honoka Kawasaki as Mina Nono
Chihiro Ikeda (Tokyo Rendezvous, Towako Omameda and Her Three Ex-Husbands, Creepy, Startup Girls) is directing. United Productions is planning and producing the project, and Pony Canyon is distributing.
Viz Media licensed the manga, and will release its first compiled book volume on March 21. The company describes the manga:
Two sleepless teenagers find kinship as they escape to their school’s astronomy observatory.
Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami is cranky in class and unpopular with his classmates. Nakami discovers that the observatory, once used by the defunct astronomy club, may be the perfect place for a nap—but he’s not alone. Nakami and his new friend Isaki Magari find comfort in each other while coping with insomnia.
No one goes near the astronomy tower due to dark rumors about the fate of the last astronomy club members. Nakami and his classmate Magari decide it’s their insomniacs’ sanctuary. Unfortunately, the school faculty can’t allow the unsanctioned use. But if there were a new astronomy club…
Ojiro launched the manga in Shogakukan‘s Big Comic Spirits magazine in May 2019. Shogakukan published the manga’s 11th volume on January 12.
The manga is also inspiring a television anime that will premiere on April 10. The music video for rock band Macaroni Enpitsu‘s “Enshin” (Centrifuge) song featured art from the manga in 2019.
Sources: Insomniacs After School film’s Twitter account, Comic Natalie
Azuki announced on Tuesday that it will digitally publish NAZ and Masato Fujisaki‘s Gloomy Bear: Apocalyptic Love manga based on Mori Chack’s Gloomy Bear character in English on April 4. The one-shot manga will be available on Azuki‘s website as well as on its iOS and Android applications.
Azuki describes the manga’s story:
A young man and woman have kept keychains as mementos of each other, even after they drifted apart. But one day, when they find themselves under attack by zombies, the keychains come to life to protect them! Can Gloomy Bear and All-Purpose Bunny defeat the zombies and bring the two back together?
Mori Chack created the Gloomy Bear character in 2000. The illustrator also created characters such as Podolly and Kumakikai.
The Itazura Guma no Gloomy (Gloomy the Naughty Grizzly) television anime series premiered in April 2021. The anime celebrated the 20th anniversary of the character. Mori had released a “trial” animated short for the character in 2014.
Source: Press release
Anime & Manga
Sakura-Con Screens N. American Premieres for To Every You I’ve Loved Before, To Me, The One Who Loved You, Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation, More Anime
Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it will screen the North American premieres for several anime and anime films at this year’s Sakura-Con event at the Seattle Convention Center on April 7-9. including:
This year’s event will host Junya Enoki (voice of Yuji in Jujutsu Kaisen), Yoshihiro Watanabe (Orange studio producer), Waki Kiyotaka (Orange studio chief producer), Kenji Muto (Trigun Stampede director), Hisashi Kagawa (She, The Ultimate Weapon character designer), Junichi Hayama (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood movie director), and Kōhei Eguchi (Eight Bit Co., Ltd. producer).
Last year’s Sakura-Con took place at the Seattle Convention Center on April 15-17, 2022. Sakura-Con 2020 and 2021 were canceled due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asia Northwest Cultural Education Association hosts Sakura-Con in Seattle annually. It describes the convention as “the oldest and most well attended anime convention in the Pacific Northwest.” The convention started in 1998.
Source: Crunchyroll
Game ends service on September 4
The official website for the Yu Gi Oh! Cross Duel iOS and Android game announced on Tuesday that the game is ending service on September 4 at 1:00 a.m. EDT.
Sales of in-game Crystal currency have halted. Refunds for unused Crystals will will be available starting on September 5.
There will be a new single-player event based on Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens on April 4 and a new raid event on April 13.
The game launched for smartphones in July 2022 in Japan and on September 6, 2022 worldwide. It features four-player card battles.
Source: Yu Gi Oh! Cross Duel game’s website (link 2) via Hachima Kikо̄
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