Anime & Manga
Shin Watanabe Award Honors One Piece Creator Eiichiro Oda
The Watanabe Foundation for Music & Culture of the Watanabe Production company presented One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda with its Shin Watanabe award, which honors producers who promote the development of pop culture, on Thursday. Oda received the award, not just for creating the One Piece series, but also for his work in producing the One Piece Film Red anime.
One Piece Film Red opened in Japan on December 3. The movie has become the franchise‘s highest-selling and highest-earning film installment, in terms of both the number of tickets sold and yen earned at the box office.
The film ranked at #1 in its opening weekend. The film sold 847,000 tickets and earned 1,295,808,780 yen (about US$9.50 million) over its opening weekend. It has sold a total of 14.27 million tickets, and has earned a cumulative total of 19.7 billion yen (about US$152 million), as of January 30.
The film has surpassed Howl’s Moving Castle as the #5 highest-earning anime film in Japan. Moreover, the film has earned the equivalent of 31.9 billion yen (about US$246.5 million) worldwide, thus surpassing Howl’s Moving Castle as the #4 highest-earning anime film globally.
The film is also the #8 highest-earning film of all time in Japan and topped Japan’s box office for 2022 in terms of yen earned and tickets sold.
Crunchyroll released One Piece Film Red in the United States and Canada on November 4, and in Australia and New Zealand on November 3. The film crossed US$12,768,073 in its second week in the United States, ranking at #8 at the U.S. box office.
Oda began serializing the One Piece manga in Weekly Shonen Jump on July 19, 1997.
Aniplex president and producer Atsuhiro Iwakami received the Shin Watanabe award in 2021. The foundation also posthumously awarded composer Katsuhisa Hattori with its special award that year and Dragon Quest series composer Koichi Sugiyama with the special award last year.
Source: Comic Natalie
This year’s 18th issue of Akita Shoten‘s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine revealed on Thursday that Masami Kurumada‘s Saint Seiya: Next Dimension – The Myth of Hades manga will resume in the magazine’s 20th issue on April 13 with the manga’s “Final Series Prequel.” The manga last appeared in the magazine in July 2021.
Kurumada has been serializing the manga since 2006, and Akita Shoten will release the 14th compiled book volume on April 7. Kurumada previously stated in September 2022 that the manga’s “final series” would have 16 chapters.
Kurumada published the original Saint Seiya manga from 1986 to 1990. The manga has inspired a number of television anime, original video anime projects, anime films, and spinoff manga.
Knights of the Zodiac, the live-action Hollywood film based on the original manga, will open in Japan on April 28. The film is titled Saint Seiya: The Beginning in Japan. The film will begin screening in the U.S. on May 12.
Source: Weekly Shōnen Champion issue 18
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Crunchyroll Adds My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 Anime to Spring Simulcast Lineup
Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will stream My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999, the television anime adaptation of Mashiro‘s Loving Yamada at Lv999! (Yamada-kun to Lv999 no Koi wo Suru) manga, from April 1 as part of its spring 2023 simulcast lineup. The service began streaming an English subtitled trailer for the anime.
The anime will debut on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 on April 1 at 00:30 a.m. JST (effectively, April 2 at 12:30 a.m. or April 1 at 11:30 a.m. EDT). Crunchyroll describes the anime:
Akane Kinoshita, a female college student, faces the absolute worst situation when she ends up breaking up with her boyfriend after he has an affair with a woman he met playing an online game. While relieving her stress by rampaging through the open hunting grounds of an online game, Akane spills everything about her heartbreak to “Yamada”, a player she met by chance who happens to be in the same guild. “I don’t care,” is his curt reply. But when Akane gets a makeover and joins an offline event to get back at her ex-boyfriend, she hears those dreadful words again. And that was Akane’s fateful encounter with “Yamada.”
The anime stars:
KANA-BOON is performing the opening theme song “Gradation feat. Yūho Kitazawa,” and Ryūjin Kiyoshi is performing the ending theme song “Trick Art.”
Morio Asaka (Chihayafuru, Card Captor Sakura, My Love Story!!) is directing the anime at Madhouse. Kunihiko Hamada is designing the characters and Yasuhiro Nakanishi (A Couple of Cuckoos, Kaguya-sama: Love is War) is in charge of the series scripts. Mito from the group Clammbon (Yurei Deco) and DÉ DÉ MOUSE (Wonder Egg Priority) are composing the music.
Mangamo is releasing the manga in English.
Mashiro debuted the manga in 2018. Kadokawa published the manga’s sixth compiled book volume on October 21.
Loving Yamada at Lv999! won the Grand Prize in the 6th Annual Tsutaya Comic Awards 2022. It has more than 1 million copies in circulation in Japan.
Source: Email correspondence
“The Quintessential Quintuplets Special Event 2023″ announced on Saturday that Negi Haruba‘s The Quintessential Quintuplets (Gotōbun no Hanayome) manga is inspiring a new anime. The new Gotōbun no Hanayome∽ (The Quintessential Quintuplets ∽) anime will adapt stories that have not yet appeared in the previous anime projects.
Negi Haruba launched the original manga Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine in August 2017, and ended the series in February 2020.
The anime’s first season premiered in January 2019 and aired for 12 episodes. The anime’s second season aired from January 2021 to March 2021.
The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie opened in Japan in May 2022. The film serves as the finale for the story. Crunchyroll began screening the film in the United States and Canada with English subtitles and with an English dub on December 2.
Source: Comic Natalie
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