Wrath of the Titans Writer Discusses Live-Action Bleach

Dan Mazeau trying to avoid what happened to live-action Dragonball

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Wrath of the Titans screenwriter Dan Mazeau discussed his upcoming projects, including the live-action adaptation of Tite Kubo's manga Bleach.

Mazeau explained that both getting the rights and the scriptwriting itself were a long process for Bleach: "But early on we set down with Tite Kubo the creator and the publisher of the series, and we had a long meeting, making sure we're respectful to the property. Nobody wants to, well… Let's just say that if you enjoyed [the live-action] Dragon Ball Z movie, that's great, but I thought it was a noble effort that ultimately didn't succeed. That's what we're trying to avoid. We want to make sure this movie lives up to what the manga is."

He added, "I'm currently working on Bleach and the idea is to set it in Japan and really be respectful to the source material. It's an amazing story. I've been shorthanding it as an 'action-adventure Sixth Sense,' but obviously on a bigger canvas than that. So I'm incredibly excited about that. It's a good one.”

Thanks to Daniel Zelter for the news tip.

Live to the Fullest -- Scent of A Woman

 

"Scent of a Woman" is a 16 episodes SBS romantic-comedy that was shown in Korea from 23 July 2011 to 11 September 2011. The drama received good reviews and ratings in Korea. The main leads are Kim Sun Ah and Lee Dong Wook. The story is about a woman, Lee Yeon Jae, is given the grim prognosis that she only has a short time left to live. She decides to quit her job at a travel agency and live her life to the fullest.

"Scent Of A Woman" stars Kim Sun Ah and Lee Dong Wook and is his first post-army comeback drama. Eom Ki Joon (Dream High) will be fighting for Kim Sun Ah’s affections in this drama. Kim Sun Ah is having a slim figure in this drama and looks beautiful, whereas Lee Dong Wook has shown his sexy body in the drama too! :P Moreover, this drama also shoot in the Okinawa, Japan, and it shows a beautiful place.

 

The drama is centered around a woman (Kim) who is told she is dying, and decides to live her remaining months to the fullest. Lee plays the restless and aimless heir to a top travel/tourism company, who meets our heroine, a lowly employee, after he fights with his fiancee and quits the company; his interest in her sparks a total turnaround in his life. Meanwhile, she meets her old childhood friend (Eom) as a patient; he’s a cold, cynical doctor who starts to care for her and ends up falling for her.

The drama depicts the life of a 30'ish woman who works as a low-level clerk. Lee Yeon Jae (Kim Sun Ah), is given the grim prognosis that she only has a short time left to live. She works hard, but lives her life without much joy. She decides to quit her job at a travel agency and live her life to the fullest by traveling abroad to find happiness.

Lee Yeon Jae works at travel agency Line Tour as an under appreciated assistant. As a single, unmarried woman in her mid-thirties, Yeon Jae is meek and timid, considered a spinster by society. She is often tasked to do menial jobs by her boss, but she never refuses out of fear of being fired. Lee Yeon Jae supports her mother and without her job believes she will not be able to get married.

One day, because of a car accident, Lee Yeon Jae goes to the hospital. There she meets Dr. Chae Eun Suk (Uhm Ki Joon). As children, Yeon Jae and Eun Suk were friends, but Eun Suk now acts as if he does not know her. Dr. Eun Suk informs Yeon Jae that she has a tumor and needs another examination. Yeon Jae goes back to the company and asks for a day off to get the medical examination. Instead of getting the day off, Yeon Jae is assigned to be a guide for high profile client Andy Wilson.

Kang Ji Wook (Lee Dong Wook) is the only son of Line Tour's company president. He is good looking, physically fit, rich and the successor to the company, but he isn't excited by anything. His father planned his marriage to Im Se Kyung (Seo Hyo Rim), the daughter of conglomerate Seo Jin. Im Se Kyung is beautiful, but highly arrogant. She's the one who arranged for musician Andy Wilson's one day tour.

Meanwhile, the tour for Andy Wilson encounters turbulence. A misunderstanding for his lunch includes pork which is forbidden by Andy Wilson's Muslim religion. Andy Wilson becomes furious and returns to his hotel. To make-up for the misunderstanding, Yeon Jae visits Andy Wilson's hotel with traditional Korean rice cake which she believes he may enjoy. Shortly later, Andy Wilson discovers that his ring is missing. Im Se Kyung and Andy Wilson both suspect that Yeon Jae stole the ring. Yeon Jae vehemently denies taking the ring, but she is eventually slapped by Im Se Kyung.

Yeon Jae, under a lot duress, finally goes to the hospital for her re-examination. Yeon Jae is informed by Dr. Eun Suk that she has cancer and is expected to live for only 6 more months. Still in shock, Yeon Jae returns to her office. When her boss starts to pick on her yet again, Yeon Jae finally reaches her boiling point. She throws her resignation, which she wrote a long time ago, to his face and leaves her job!

Embarking on her first vacation alone, she splurges on clothes and flies first-class to Okinawa, Japan, where she runs into her dream man, Kang Ji Wook, the son of her former boss. Ji Wook is a young rich man, cynical and lifeless, until he falls in love with Yeon Jae. Together they live out a series of misadventures, both comical and bittersweet, as Yeon Jae completes each dream in her "bucket list" and discover the joys of life.

 

Cast :-

Kim Sun Ah as Lee Yeon Jae
Lee Dong Wook as Kang Ji Wook
Uhm Ki Joon as Chae Eun Suk
Seo Hyo Rim as Im Se Kyung

Kim Hye Ok as Kim Soon Jung (Yeon Jae’s mother)
Sa Hyun Jin as Yoo Hye Won
Choi Jung Hoon as Oh Sang Mok
Lee Jung Gil as Kang Chul Man (Ji Wook’s father)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Scent of A Woman” has also won several awards at the 2011 SBS Drama Awards. The awards are below :-

2011 SBS Drama Awards: Top Excellence Awards, Best Actress (Soap Opera), Kim Sun Ah
2011 SBS Drama Awards: Top Excellence Awards, Best Actor (Soap Opera), Lee Dong Wook
2011 SBS Drama Awards: Excellence Awards, Actor (Soap Opera): Uhm Ki Joon
2011 SBS Drama Awards: Best Supporting Awards, Actress (Soap Opera): Kim Hye Ok
2011 SBS Drama Awards: Top 10 Stars, Kim Sun Ah
2011 SBS Drama Awards: Top 10 Stars, Lee Dong Wook
2011 SBS Drama Awards: New Star Awards, Seo Hyo Rim

Well, if you are interested to catch this romance drama, please click into “Scent of A Woman” to join the passionate love world.

Enjoy watching!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AKB48's Atsuko Maeda Leaves Idol Group

An emotional Atsuko Maeda announced at a concert in Saitama's Super Arena on Sunday that she is leaving the idol group AKB48. 20-year-old "Acchan" joined AKB48 at age 14 as an early member.
Maeda has appeared in several live-action adaptations of manga for television.

Her first lead role was in Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e ~Ikemen Paradise, a television adaptation of Hisaya Nakajo's Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e (Hana-Kimi) shōjo school romance manga last July. She also starred in the live-action film adaptation of Natsumi Iwasaki's Moshi Kōkō Yakyū no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no "Management" o Yondara (Moshidora) novel that same year. More recently, she played Jaiko in a new live-action commercial inspired by the Doraemon manga for Toyota Motor Corporation.

A character loosely based on Maeda will appear in the upcoming sci-fi anime AKB0048. The character "Acchan" will be voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro.

Brave to Yourself -- Chrome Shelled Regios

 

Konnichiwa minasan! I am watching an animation series on the Animax Channel on Astro (channel 715) currently. It is called “Chrome Shelled Regios”. It is airing from every Monday until Friday at 11pm.

“Chrome Shelled Regios” is adapted from a Japanese light novel series by Shūsuke Amagi, with illustrations by Miyū. It is also adapted into the manga series.  The story is about in a post-apocalyptic polluted earth overrun with mutated beasts called Filth Monsters (Contaminoids in Funimation's translation), humanity is forced to live in large mobile cities called Regios and learn to use weapons called DITE and harness the power of Kei to defend themselves. In the Academy City of Zuellni, Layfon Alseif is hoping to start a new life without Martial/Military arts and forget his past. However, his past has caught the attention of Kalian Loss, the Student Council President and Nina Antalk, a Military Arts student and Captain of the 17th Platoon, who instantly recognizes his abilities and decides he's the perfect candidate to join her group. The series follow Layfon's life in Zuellni and occasionally has flash backs of his life in Glenden.

This animation series has 24 episodes. This is a sci-fic, fantasy and adventure anime series. I like the Opening song: "Brave your truth" by Daisy × Daisy as I think it is a nice song. Moreover, the arts of this animation series is beautiful too. The fighting scenes are very good too. There are few closing songs for such series too.

 

 

 

So, let me introduce some of the characters of the “Chrome Shelled Regios” to you.

Layfon Wolfstein Alseif

Weapon of choice: Sword, Broad sword, Guan Dao, Steel threads and Katana

The main protagonist of the series. He is described as having tea colored hair and blue eyes. He was one of the twelve wielders of the Heaven Blades and also held the title of Wolfstein at the age of ten. In the Academy City of Zuellni, Layfon Alseif is hoping to start a new life without Martial/Military arts and forget his past. However, his past has caught the attention of Kalian Loss, the Student Council President and Nina Antalk, a Military Arts student and Captain of the 17th Platoon, who instantly recognizes his abilities and decides he's the perfect candidate to join her group. He is a very strong fighter and he is very honest with what he talks. Many girls like him.

Nina Antalk

Weapon of choice: Iron Whips

Nina is the leader/captain of the 17th Platoon and forcibly recruits Layfon into her platoon at the start of the anime series. She has blond, golden hair and blue eyes. Her dedication caused her to get angry a lot in the first part of the series, especially when one of her squad members are late. She was born to a martial artist family and wanted to see the outside world, causing her to run away from home. Her DITEs are a pair of singlesticks, labelled as "iron whips" in the novels, made from black DITE. Nina has promised to protect Zuellini, and thus felt that losing any battle is not an option. This causes her to over-exert herself time and time again.

Felli Loss

Weapon of choice: Wand

The psychokinesis user of the 17th platoon and a 2nd year. She has silvery hair and grey eyes. She rarely speaks and shows little emotion due to the habit of a psychokinesis user, the brain of a psychokinesis user automatically rejects unnecessary or irrelevant information other than the required ones. Like most psychokinesis users, Felli's brain receives a great influx of information, and is able to handle the strain of responding to every bit of information. Layfon stated that the psychokinesis users have a different brain structure that allows them to process and simulate the huge sum of information in a short period of time. Because of this, she has a hard time making common facial expressions, such as smiling. She is also the sister of the head of the student council, Kalian Loss, whom she despises for making her attend the Military Arts section, just as he did with Layfon. She works part time at a cafe which Sharnid recommended, where the waitresses dress up as maids. In the anime, she kicks Layfon in the shin every time he does something wrong and will also hit her brother whenever he's being too noisy. After learning of Layfon's nickname "Lay-ton", she insisted on calling him "Fon-Fon." And becomes mad if Layfon call her "senior" (English) / "sempai" (Japanese). (She insists on being called Felli). She also has taken a liking to Layfon in a romantic sense, showing clear signs of jealousy by copying Shante's little act by riding on Layfon's shoulders and blushing while Layfon teaches her how to swim. When she discovers Leerin's letter, she shows slight jealousy and attempted to press the matter but was to reluctant in the end. Additionally, after Layfon is hospitalized, Felli comes with flowers. She ends up keeping them because she spots flowers already delivered by Nina, making Felli react in a childish and jealous manner. She tried to make desserts for Layfon at Valentines and forced Kalian to try it; the unfortunate brother had a day off miserably sick with Felli exclaiming "Brother is too fragile.

Felli is described as one of the most talented psychokinesis users. Her DITE is a wand which holds many petal shaped pieces that are grey when inactive and are pink when active. These petals are utilized to send out telepathic messages to others. They can also transform into offensive daggers or explode, an ability named psychokinesis mine, if necessary. Felli is also capable of synchronizing with other people's pins to make up for distances she cannot cover.

Sharnid Elipton

Weapon of choice: Sniper Rifle, Dual Pistols

A fourth-year student and oldest of the 17th platoon. He has strawberry blond hair and green eyes. Sharnid is an excellent sharpshooter who is usually laid back and enjoys teasing other people. His ability to conceal his kei is excellent among the student of Zuellni, however he was unsuccessful when he tried to tail Layfon and Leerin. He appears to have playboy-tendencies saying stuff like "you won't understand the night life of an attractive man". He is usually late for his platoon training. His main DITE is a rifle, but he later obtains two close quarters pistols from Harley in order to take up multiple roles in their small platoon. He wields his dual pistols in Gun Kata-like stances. It is revealed that he was originally a part of 10th Platoon, but left because he felt as though he would have lost them. Sharnid asked his former teammate, Siena, to help him in a match after Layfon's injuries. Although he is a playboy, he does seem to care and have genuine feelings for Siena.

Harley Sutton

The same age as Nina, and DITE-mechanic of the 17th platoon, who does not participate in combat. He has green hair and grey eyes. He is Nina's childhood friend. Harley is also in charge of creating DITEs for the platoon in the anime, including Layfon's turquoise sword and Sharnid's dual pistols, and the adjustment for DITEs. He and Chilieck created the adamandite and is currently working on improving it so Layfon can fight with his real strength. Harley specializes in weapon adjustment so weapons best fit their owners. In Grendan, Harley's specialization would class him as a Dite Engineer.

Kalian Loss

Head of the student council and Felli's older brother. He is willing to do anything to protect the city, even sacrifice his own sister to accomplish his goal of spreading Zuellni's influence. Kalian's leadership skill is very good, as seen in his ability to give excellent speeches. It is shown that he does genuinely care for his sister, but his worrying over a possible relationship between Felli and Layfon caused him to greatly overreact.

Leerin Marfes

A childhood friend turned girlfriend of Layfon, who currently resides in Grendan. Both she and Layfon grew up together at the same orphanage. Layfon cares for her dearly and is the only girl he treats with gentleness (also the only girl he kisses). She supported Layfon even after his gambling incident was found out and distanced herself from the orphanage as a result.

There are many more characters are appearing in the anime series and those above are the main ones. Among all the characters, I like Layfon the most, of course. He is a very hot guy I think and he is very serious when comes to the fighting and he always protects the  people around him. The other character I like is Felli-senpai. She is a very petite person. I think she is very cute and when she gets angry at Layfon, she always kicks him. Sometimes Layfon also could not understand why did Felli kick him for. I like the way Felli called Layfon as “Fon-Fon”, as I think it is very cute! :P



 

 

Let's see some of the preview scenes of the "Chrome Shelled Regios" below.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, if you are interested to catch the anime or manga series of “Chrome Shelled Regios”, you may click on the links below.

Chrome Shelled Regios Anime Series

Chrome Shelled Regios Manga Series

I hope you would enjoy the series. Sayonara!!!