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Live-Action GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka Show Gets New Series in July – News
Fuji TV and Kansai TV announced on Thursday that they are producing a new live-action series based on Tohru Fujisawa‘s GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka manga that will premiere on Kansai TV, Fuji TV, and affiliated channels on July 20 at 10:00 p.m. (9:00 a.m. EDT). 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.
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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.
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, Oricon via Hachima Kikō
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Game developer enish announced on Friday that Attack on Titan: Brave Order, its cooperative smartphone game in the Attack on Titan franchise, is ending service on September 28 at 5:30 p.m. JST.
Sales of in-game currency have halted.
The game launched for iOS and Android devices in February 2022.
The game has players join the Scout Corps alongside Eren and Mikasa, and take down Titans cooperatively alongside other players.
Mobage released the first Shingeki no Kyojn (Attack on Titan) smartphone game in 2012. The Shingeki no Kyojin -Hangeki no Tsubasa- (Attack on Titan: The Wings of Counterattack) smartphone game launched on the GREE mobile platform in 2013. The Shingeki no Kyoujin -Jiyū he no Hōkō- (Attack on Titan -Call for Freedom-) smartphone game then launched through Mobage in 2014. DeNA released KAYAC‘s Attack on Titan TACTICS tactical role-playing smartphone game for iOS and Android devices in English in September 2019, and the game ended service in August 2020.
Source: Attack on Titan: Brave Order game’s account
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Studio Aardman’s Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu Stop-Motion Series Reveals Teaser Trailer, 2027 Debut on Disney+, Disney XD – News
The official website for the Pokémon franchise announced during the PokémonXP event on Friday that Disney+ will exclusively stream the Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu, the franchise‘s stop-motion animated series collaboration with independent studio Aardman (Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep), beginning in 2027. The Disney XD channel will debut the series on television. The official YouTube channels for the Pokémon franchise and Aardman unveiled a teaser trailer:
The series is part of a global distribution deal between Disney+ and The Pokémon Company International. The deal also includes Pokémon the Series: The Beginning, the original Indigo League season of the anime, which began streaming on Disney+ on August 7 with the first 27 episodes and has also begun airing on Disney XD.
Peter Lord, Cofounder and Creative Director at Aardman, stated that the Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu animated series will take place in a region that is “very close to our hearts.” The video teases Wooloo and Sirfetch’d, which are Pokémon originally introduced in the Pokémon Sword/Shield games that are set in the Galar region based on the U.K.
Tom Parkinson is the director, Natalie McKay is the creative director, and James Young is the creative lead.
Pokémon Concierge, another stop-motion animated series for the Pokémon franchise, debuted with four episodes on Netflix in December 2023. The stop-motion production company dwarf studios (Rilakkuma and Kaoru) animated the episodes thus far. New episodes premiered in September 2025.”
The Pokémon: Horizons anime premiered in Japan in April 2023 with a one-hour first-episode special. The show airs in Japan on Fridays at 6:55 p.m. JST.
The Pokémon Company had originally announced that the anime would debut on Netflix in the U.S. in February 2024, but the series debuted instead in March 2024. Netflix premiered Pokémon Horizons: The Series—The Search for Laqua, the anime’s second season, in February 2025. Netflix added Pokémon Horizons: Season 3—Rising Hope on January 6.
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