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Thursday, March 11, 2010 Posted by Anime Forum on January 21, 2010 @ 12:17:35 AM in News Articles
Yen Press will launch a graphic novel adaptation of the vampiric, Romeo and Juliet rip off, complete literary abomination: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. The novel adaptation will comprise two volumes, illustrated by manhwa artist Young Kim and will feature black and white illustrations with colour insert pages. Scheduled for release on March 16, the first volume will have an initial printing of 350, 000 copies. The following image is a sample page of the biology lab encounter, originally posted on the Entertainment Weekly Magazine website.
This Friday's issue of the magazine will contain a ten-page excerpt from the graphic novel and an interview with Stephenie Meyer. In November, Evangelion character designer/manga creator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Metal Gear game franchise creator Hideo Kojima, and Sasameke manga creator Ryuji Gotsubo judged a Twilight art contest in Japan. Gotsubo illustrated the Japanese edition of the Twilight novels, and according to the contest's sponsor pixiv, the judges are "huge fans" of the Twilight series. Source: Anime News Network, Entertainment Weekly Magazine
Posted by Anime Forum on January 17, 2010 @ 05:43:24 PM in News Articles
The popular Neoromance RPG Kin'iro no Corda (La Corda d'oro) from game developer Koei will be turned into a stage musical set for this march. The game, which has also been adapted as a manga and anime revolves around Kahoko Hino; an ordinary school girl who is given a magical violin by a mischeivous musical fairy. The musical will be performed at the Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo on March 19-24. Starring teen model Azusa Okamoto (17) and Hello! Pro Eggs member Saki Mori (16) who have been double-cast as the protagonist Kahoko Hino. With supporting cast members Shun Mikami, Yuta Takahashi, Manato Kawamura, Koichi Yoshino, and Yuta Koseki, with music composition by Takatsugu Muramatsu. The video game series has sold more than 300,000 copies, and the 13 volumes of the manga released so far have sold over 2.5 million copies. The anime adaptation; Kin'iro no Corda: Primo Passo was first broadcast by TV Tokyo in October of 2006 until March of 2007. A 2-episode special; Kin'iro no Corda: Secondo Passo was aired in March of 2009 by Kids Station. Source: Tokyograph
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