The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin – a 2020 action RPG developed by Edelweiss for the Nintendo Switch, Playstation4, and PC – has released a main trailer featuring the opening theme song "Harebare!" (Bright and Clear) performed by two-member musical unit Ikimonogakari . It is also announced that the P.A.Woks-animated adaptation is set to premiere on the TV Tokyo Network on July 6, 2024. Masayuki Yoshiwara ( The Eccentric Family ) serves as director along with series composition writer Jukki Hanada ( Love Live! ), and six-member Japanese girl vocal group Little Glee Monster provides the ending theme "Origami." "Harebare! was newly written and composed by the unit's guitarist/pianist, Yoshiki Mizuno. The units says, "'Stronger, weaker, live through it.' The song is based on the image of a strong and vigorous life, with strength and weakness combined, just like ears of rice swaying in the wind under a clear sky.
- 5/25/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
While multiple Korean TV series have connected with global audiences, Japan’s production committees, terrestrial broadcasters and talent agencies have kept their TV industry tightly focused on a local market.
Anime and variety have long remained the Japanese TV industry’s best-known exports, while the premium end of the spectrum has largely escaped Japanese producers. That is despite multinational shows like Hulu’s “Shogun,” HBO’s “Tokyo Vice” and Netflix’s “House of Ninjas” underscoring the potentially substantial overseas interest in Japan-set live-action drama.
“House of the Owl,” set to begin airing on Disney+ and Hulu from next week, is both an outlier and a potential mold breaker.
A crime thriller about a behind-the-scenes political fixer and his chafing rivalry with his son, “House of the Owl” was conceived as a five-season ride along the lines of “House of Cards” or “Succession.” But overcoming the obstacles on the way to...
Anime and variety have long remained the Japanese TV industry’s best-known exports, while the premium end of the spectrum has largely escaped Japanese producers. That is despite multinational shows like Hulu’s “Shogun,” HBO’s “Tokyo Vice” and Netflix’s “House of Ninjas” underscoring the potentially substantial overseas interest in Japan-set live-action drama.
“House of the Owl,” set to begin airing on Disney+ and Hulu from next week, is both an outlier and a potential mold breaker.
A crime thriller about a behind-the-scenes political fixer and his chafing rivalry with his son, “House of the Owl” was conceived as a five-season ride along the lines of “House of Cards” or “Succession.” But overcoming the obstacles on the way to...
- 4/18/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation is gunning to take the anime world by storm. With nearly 60 years since the Japanese TV channel aired Golden Bat in 1967, Yomiuri is launching a producing brand called ytv animation to cultivate anime and take it from Yomiuri TV’s base in Osaka to fans around the world. Yomiuri TV has been producing anime for nearly sixty years, with shows such as Space Brothers , Inuyasha , Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange and even the famous Detective Conan/Case Closed series under their producing belt. The new ytv animation brand is set to not only help promote their titles in Japan but also to overseas fans. The umbrella aims to directly talk to fans around the world through social media and in-person events, such as the Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange premiere at Anime Expo in Los Angeles last year. Related: The Blue Wolves of Mibu TV Anime Shares New Trailer Introducing Character Voices,...
- 3/22/2024
- by Daryl Harding
- Crunchyroll
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