The long awaited live-action film adaptation of Ohba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi's Bakuman. manga opened last week. In its opening weekend, the movie which opened on 325 screens across Japan on Saturday (October 4) sold 184,263 tickets and earned 251,607,900 yen. Bakuman. topped the box office last weekend.


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After confronting each other in Rurouni Kenshin as enemy, Satou Takeru and Kamiki Ryunosuke will be paired (again) in Bakuman. The news about Bakuman. live-action movie adaptation has been circulating for nearly a year with no further news until this morning.

Mainichi Shimbun paper's Mantan-Web site reported that the film will open on October 3 ( Read more... )

To overcome my sadness for not being able to attend Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Taika-hen premiere in Jakarta today, I bought myself (early birthday present) Rurouni Kenshin Calendar 2015 and Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Taika Hen/Densetsu no Saigo Hen PhotobookBlame Satou Takeru for being hot as Himura Kenshin. The moment I landed my eyes on those goodies, my ( Read more... )

After those pimps, Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen gets a good kick in Japan box office earning. The first part of the sequel sold 645,086 tickets for 822,734,430 yen (about US$ 8 million) in just three days since its opening on August 1. It garnered the biggest opening of any Japanese live-action film this year. Not even Kuroshitsuji could ( Read more... )

Yappari... holiday is GREAT.

( The next holiday is December 7th! )

After having a second thought, I decided to post my review on Mei-chan no Shitsuji. The review written in my native language was published on January 30th this year in this newspaper. But I’m not quite satisfied with the result so I wanted to write another one, completed with several pics from manga and dorama. Credits to Margaret and boys_paper for the pics ( Read more... )