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New Live-Action GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka Series Casts Meru Nukumi – News
Kansai TV announced on Saturday that the new live-action series based on Tohru Fujisawa‘s GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka manga has cast Meru Nukumi (My Hero Academia: You’re Next‘s Anna Scervino, live-action Sexy Tanaka-san‘s Akari Kurahashi). Nukumi plays the heroine Mio Kashiwabara, the assistant homeroom teacher for the class of the title character.
Kashiwabara is a practical teacher who prizes efficiency. However, as she also prioritizes stopping trouble and conflict before they even occur, she keeps both students and fellow teachers at a distance and avoids expressing her emotions. Despite this, when she and Onizuka are eventually at odds, she has to question a teacher’s role and her approach towards students.
Nukumi noted that when she watched the previous live-action series in reruns (she was born after the first series premiered) growing up, she mused about playing a student, but never imagined playing a teacher.
© Fuji TV
In the new series, the now 52-year-old Onizuka works as a teacher at Seishin Academy, which aims to “raise the leaders of the future.” At Seishin, both students and teachers carry tablets through which the school disseminates information. Students anonymously rank teachers through the “Teacher Feedback System,” where teachers constantly ranked low lose their homeroom teacher status. Teachers and students both chat using the tablet, though neither side see it as a place to air their true feelings.
Onizuka’s direct teaching methods, where he puts himself on the line, are now seen as problematic, and it has led him to losing a string of teaching jobs prior to arriving at Seishin Academy. Now he must deal with the commercialization of education, being bound by rankings and oversight, and a school that seems to show no interest in others’ well being and relies on social media.
Takashi Sorimachi reprises the role of protagonist Eikichi Onizuka 28 years after his first outing, while Satoru Nakajima and Kazuhiko Yukawa return as director and scriptwriter, respectively, for the new series. The series is a sequel to earlier live-action adaptations, moving the time period from the Heisei era to the modern Reiwa era.
The new series will premiere on Kansai TV, Fuji TV, and affiliated channels on July 20 at 10:00 p.m. (9:00 a.m. EDT).
Fujisawa published the original GTO manga in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1997 to 2002. Other works in the franchise include the manga sequel GTO: Shonan 14 Days, the discontinued spin-off GT-R, and the predecessor series GTO: The Early Years. Tokyopop and Vertical published various GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) manga titles, including the GTO: The Early Years prequel, in North America. The GTO: Paradise Lost manga launched in Weekly Young Magazine in April 2014. After going on hiatus in February 2023, the manga moved to Kodansha‘s Magazine Pocket website under the new name GTO: Paradise Lost Kai and resumed in April 2024, and ended in October 2024.
The main manga inspired the first live-action GTO series adaptation in 1998, various television specials over the years, a remake series starring Exile member Akira in 2012 with its own spinoffs, and a live-action film in 2000. GTO: The Early Years inspired a new live-action series adaptation in February 2020. GTO Revival, a new live-action television special, premiered in April 2024.
The manga also inspired a television anime adaptation that aired in Japan in 1999. Tokyopop initally licensed the anime series in 2001, releasing it on DVD singles and two boxsets. Discotek licensed the anime and released it on home video in September 2013.
Sources: Kansai TV, Comic Natalie
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Paramount Pictures started streaming a new trailer for Legendary Entertainment‘s live-action film of CAPCOM‘s Street Fighter game series on Monday, focusing on Ken and Ryu’s relationship and rivalry.
© 2026 Paramount Pictures
The film will open on October 16.
Paramount Pictures describes the story:
Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don’t, it’s GAME OVER!
The cast includes:
Paramount Pictures and Legendary signed a multi-year distribution deal in December, with Paramount Pictures distributing Legendary Entertainment films worldwide except China (Legendary East handles distribution in China). Street Fighter will be the first film to be distributed under the new deal. Legendary Entertainment acquired the film and television rights to Street Fighter in April 2023, and will work with CAPCOM on future projects.
Sony Pictures was previously slated to distribute the film. When the film was still slated to be distributed by Sony Pictures, the film was planned to open on March 20, 2026, but Sony removed the film from its release calendar in March 2025.
Kitao Sakurai (The Eric André Show, Bad Trip) is directing the film’s shoot in Australia, which started in August 2025. Brothers Danny and Michael Philippou were initially slated to direct the film, but left the film to focus on making their Bring Her Back film.
The game series inspired a live-action film in 1994 starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raúl Juliá, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, and Wes Studi. Hyde Park Entertainment produced a separate spinoff titled Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li starring Kristin Kreuk in 2009.
Machinima produced the Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist and Street Fighter: Resurrection live-action series. Machinima released the first series on its YouTube channel in May 2014, and Funimation licensed the series for release in North America. Funimation released the series on Blu-ray Disc in October 2014. Machinima released the second series on Verizon’s go90 streaming service in March-April 2016. A Street Fighter: World Warrior television series was originally planned in 2018.
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie adapted CAPCOM‘s video game Super Street Fighter II in 1994. Discotek Media released the film on DVD in December 2015, and on Blu-ray Disc in October 2016. The franchise has also inspired several other anime and animated series.
The Street Fighter 6 fighting game launched in June 2023 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam. CAPCOM released the game on Nintendo Switch 2 in June 2025 as a launch title. The Street Fighter 6 Years 1-2 Fighters Edition version also launched on the same day.
Sources: Email correspondence, Paramount Pictures‘ YouTube channel
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Manga debuts with new setting/era in 2027
Chiaki J. Konaka (series script supervisor of Serial Experiments Lain, Texhnolyze, and Hellsing) announced at the Japan Weekend Madrid event in Spain last weekend that Yoshitoshi ABe‘s (creator and character designer for Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei) Despera anime project is getting a manga in 2027. He posted a visual on X/Twitter on Monday:
Konaka added that the manga’s setting and era will differ from those of the original project announcement. He clarified that this project is not related to Serial Experiments Lain.
Konaka last provided an update for the project in 2021. According to him, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was suspended for a year and a few months. Konaka added that the production funding scheme was 80% completed at the time, and that the core staff had done a lot of work up until 2020. He confirmed that staff was still working hard on the project, and asked fans to be patient.
The Despera anime project was put on hold after director Ryūtarō Nakamura passed away in 2013. ABe mentioned in October 2014 that the project was continuing with a new director.
ABe unveiled the project at Seattle’s Sakura-Con in 2009. ABe was heading the project and designing the characters and Chiaki J. Konaka, the series script supervisor of Serial Experiments Lain, Texhnolyze, and Hellsing, was writing the script.
The title is derived from a poem from the Dadaist poet Jun Tsuji (1884-1944). It is also derived from the shortened version of the term “desperado.” The story centers around Ain, a 14-year-old girl who builds devices despite the lack of the scientific background required for them. The science-fiction story was originally set in Japan’s Taishō era in 1922 — one year before the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake in the Tokyo area.
Sources: Chiaki J. Konaka‘s Twitter account
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1st season ended with 26th episode on Monday
The official website for the television anime of Shinobu Kaitani‘s Liar Game manga announced on Tuesday that the anime is getting a second season. The website unveiled a commemorative illustration by character designer Kei Tsuchiya:
© Kaitani Shinobu Products/Shueisha, LIAR GAME Committee
The 26th and final episode of the first season aired on Monday (effectively, Tuesday).
© Kaitani Shinobu Products/Shueisha, LIAR GAME Committee
The anime premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo and its affiliates on April 6. The anime ran for six months without breaks. The second part of the anime began on July 7. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime worldwide (excluding Japan and China) and hosted the world premiere screening of the anime’s first two episodes at this year’s Sakura-Con event in Seattle on April 5. PDT. AMEDIATEKA is distributing the anime in the Russian Federation.
REMOW introduces the series’ story:
A Mysterious Invitation. One Hundred Million Yen. The Game Begins.
College student Nao Kanzaki suddenly receives a strange letter and a suitcase containing 100 million yen. She’s been chosen to participate in the LIAR GAME—a high-stakes psychological battle where lies, deception, and betrayal reign supreme. Naïve and painfully honest, Nao quickly finds herself cornered. To survive, she turns to Shinichi Akiyama, a brilliant former con artist with unmatched intellect. As they dive deeper into the twisted game, the two must outwit opponents in a world where trusting others could be fatal. In a game built on lies, can honesty prevail?
Yūzō Satō (Kaiji -Ultimate Survivor-, Akagi, Trillion Game, The Gene of AI) was the chief director of the anime at Madhouse, and Asami Kawano (assistant director for The Vampire Dies in No Time both seasons, episode director for Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) directed the anime. Tatsuhiko Urahata (Baki, Baki Hanma, Monster, Muv-Luv Alternative) wrote and oversaw the series scripts, Kei Tsuchiya (Laidbackers, Trillion Game, The Gene of AI) was the character designer, and Kisuke Koizumi (The Gene of AI, My Happy Marriage, Ghost in the Shell Arise) was the sound director.
The manga ran from 2005 to January 2015 in Shueisha‘s Weekly Young Jump magazine. Shueisha published the manga’s 19th and final compiled book volume in May 2015. Kaitani launched a new short serialization for the manga titled Liar Game: The Last Game in Shueisha‘s Grand Jump Mucha magazine on February 25.
The manga previously inspired two live-action films, two live-action television series, and two live-action online series. The manga also inspired a stage play in 2023.
Kaitani’s ONE OUTS manga inspired a television anime in 2008.
Sources: Liar Game anime’s website, Comic Natalie
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