Netflix: 10 live-action manga adaptations leading up to the release of Cowboy Bebop and One Piece

News culture Netflix: 10 live-action manga adaptations leading up to the release of Cowboy Bebop and One Piece

Alice in the Frontier

This round-up of live-action manga adaptations begins with a Japanese thriller that was released on Netflix on December 10, 2020. Alice in the Frontier is originally a his written and illustrated by Haro Asa, pre-published between November 2010 and March 2015 in Shogakukan’s magazine Shognen Sunday S, then in Weekly Shonen Jump until March 2016 for a total of 18 bound volumes. First adapted in OAV (for Original Animation Video), Netflix then acquires the rights and immediately announces the start of series in live recordings. Season 1, which consists of 8 episodes, tells the adventures of Ryōhei Arisu and Yuzuha Usagi, both prisoners of a depopulated city of Tokyo in which they must take part in deadly trials in the hope of survival.

• See the Alice in Borderland series

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Wildlife

Wildlife is a 2018 Chinese film directed by Han Yan, starring Li Yifeng, Zhou Dongyu and the equally famous Michael Douglas. Animal World: Mr Nobody (alternate title) was shown in theaters for the first time in its home country before Netflix bought the digital rights internationally. This feature film is a free adaptation of the manga Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, which was pre-published in Young Magazine in 1996. The film inspired by this focuses on the character of Zheng Kaisi. This indebted young man has to board the Destiny ship to take part in gambling. If he emerges victorious from that strange night, his debts will be forgiven.

• Check out the Animal World movie

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Blade of the Immortal

Place in feudal Japan with the following works. Blade of the Immortal is a 2017 film directed by Takashi Miike himself. The prolific Japanese director you probably know from Ichi the Killer and 13 Assassins adapts the manga of the same name. The paper saga emerged from the pen and pencil of Hiroaki Samura and was pre-published from June 1993 to December 2012 in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon and then compiled in 13 bound volumes (or tankōbon). The story centers on the cursed samurai Manji, who becomes the bodyguard of an orphan named Rin Asano against the backdrop of a vengeful search through the circumstances. The also immortal protagonist is embodied on the screen by the actor Takuya Kimura, who also gives the character of Takayuki Yagami in the video game saga Judgment his facial features and his voice.

• Check out the movie Immortal’s Blade

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bleaching

Adapting a Japanese comic book monument like Bleach into a live-action project is a risky venture, but one that Warner Bros Pictures hasn’t set back. The film was released in Japan in July 2018 and then in the United States bleaching directed by Shinsuke Sato landed on the Netflix SVOD platform on September 14th of the same year. Ichigo Kurosaki, a 15-year-old high school student who can sense the presence of the deceased’s souls, turns his peaceful existence upside down after meeting a Shinigami and a monster named Hollow. As a reminder, Bleach is a Tite Kubo Shonen that was pre-released in Weekly Shōnen Jump between 2001 and 2016. In 2018, the bound volumes were sold more than 120 million times worldwide.

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Edge of tomorrow

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in a manga adaptation … it may seem surprising, yet sometimes fiction meets reality. Edge of tomorrow Directed by Doug Liman (Memory in the Skin, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jumper) is a free adaptation of a light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka in December 2004. A manga by Ryōsuke Takeuchi and drawn by Takeshi Obata appears 10 years later in Weekly Shōnen Jump. The live-action film, which was released with the comic strip, takes as its setting a planet earth that is being invaded by an unprecedented alien force. While the last human forces attack the French coast, Major William Cage dies … before coming back to life and trapped in a time warp the day before the attack.

• Watch the movie Edge of Tomorrow

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Turned off

Turned off is a live-action series announced by Netflix in March 2017 and launched on the same streaming platform in December of that year. This “original” program faithfully and completely adapts the original material, unlike the anime and the 2016 film. Erased is originally a manga by Kei Sanbe that was published between 2012 and 2016 in Kadokawa Shoten’s Young Ace magazine. The Netflix-produced drama follows the adventures of Satoru Fujinuma, who, unlike his peers, has the opportunity to go back a few minutes to change things. This young manga artist whose career has stalled goes back 18 years after a tragic event. He is then given the opportunity to rescue three of his comrades who were murdered by a mysterious criminal while they were in elementary school.

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Gambling school

The games of chance and especially the money games seem to be an inexhaustible source of stories for the Mangakas. Gambling school (or Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler) is a manga by Homura Kawamoto and illustrated by Toru Naomura. Published in Square Enix ‘Gangan Joker from March 2014 to February 2021, the main saga ended after the release of the 14th bound volume. Newcomer Yumeko Jabami arrives at Hyakkaou Academy, a unique place where the ranking and popularity of students are based on their gaming revenue. The adaptation of the Gambling School’s live-action series is announced in November 2017 for release in January 2018. This drama ultimately has two seasons, a first of 10 episodes and a second of 5.

• See the series of gambling school (Kakegurui)

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Illang: The Wolf Brigade

When Westerners regularly target works from Japan, it is much less common for neighboring countries to be interested. However, Illang: The Wolf Brigade Directed by Kim Jee-woon with Kang Dong-won and Han Hyo-joo is a faithful adaptation of the memorial of the Japanese animation Jin-Roh, the wolf brigade. Although this live-action film takes its action in Korea rather than Japan and renames its characters, the latter respects the nihilistic tone borrowed from melancholy as well as the purpose of Hiroyuki Okiura’s feature film. Illang: The Wolf Brigade is a story of anticipation in which the two Koreas are doomed to reunification, a reunification strongly opposed by part of the population as well as several small terrorist groups, including “Sect”. Faced with this new threat, the authorities are setting up a special unit.

• Watch the movie Illang: The Wolf Brigade

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Kenshin: The Beginning / The Completion

We travel back in time, at the end of the 19th century, to meet a key figure in Japanese culture. Vagabond assassin Kenshin Himura, once known as Battosai, travels the country with an inverted blade to atone for his bloody past. The live action customization project dates back to 2012 with the release of Kenshin the vagabond directed by Keishi Otomo. The Japanese director will resume back to back in August and September 2014 Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno and Kenshin: The end of the legend. The swordsman then takes a well-deserved break before starting his last and then first trip in the summer of 2021 Kenshin: The completion and Kenshin: The beginning. The last two are available on Netflix.

• Watch the movie Kenshin: The Completion
• Watch the movie Kenshin: The Beginning

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Mob Psycho 100

In conclusion, let us express one more author who has become indispensable in the “Manga” scene with the adventures of the “bald head” aka Saitama. One is the creator of the 2012 webcomic One Punch Man by One himself in collaboration with Yusuke Murata in the drawings. But it’s not work that brings us together here. The Japanese artist is also for the UFO. responsible Mob Psycho 100, a post published on the Shogakukan’s Ura Sunday website between 2012 and 2017. The latter tells the life of Kageyama Shigeo, a seemingly uneventful student who actually has powerful psychic powers. While he only wants one thing, to live his life and hang out with a fellow student, his supernatural abilities threaten a precarious calm. A rich 12-part TV series adaptation saw the light of day in spring 2018.

• See the Mob Psycho 100 series

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