Since I rarely have the time to do a full Blossom Blabber anymore, I decided to move the News Blurbs into a whole new post, when the news is still recent. I mean…I think it’s more reasonable to be talking about the news when it’s still…news. ^^” I think I already said awhile back that I’d do a news blurb post, but I guess I never got to it. But I guess News Blurb posts are mainly filler posts when I don’t have enough time to do a full post. Also, I forgot to mention that news blurbs can be about, well, any type of news. >_> So here’s the first (short) news blurbs!

It includes the The Wallflower drama, Bungaku Shoujo trailer, TokiKake teaser, Kobato’s First DVD, and Liar Game Movie. :D

The Wallflower Live Action

Well, it’s finally happened!~ The Wallflower has been adapted into a live action, starting January. More news about it will be released in upcoming Bessatsu Friend issues. The Wallflower summary:

Takano Kyohei, Oda Takenaga, Toyama, Yukinojo, and Morii Ranmaru are going to rent a house to go to school for free on the condition that they make the girl of the house a “lady”. However, Nakahara Sunako, the girl living there, is gloomy, weird, and horror movie maniac. She has a trauma of when she was told ugly by the boy whom she loved when she was in junior high school. She doesn’t like beautiful things and gets a nosebleed when she looks at something beautiful. -MAL

Squee!~ *runs around in many circles* I remember The Wallflower, and it was a pretty good series, even though lots of it was random, and aimless, and had no development. >_>  Now I made it sound bad. Unfortunately, the videos got removed before I was able to finish them. Dx Anyways, I’m still really glad it got adapted as a live action. I think a drama would better suit the series and make it much better. I’m also really glad to see it as a drama so that I won’t get distracted and irritated by the ugly animation like the anime. And less creepy eyelashes and less chibis. xD I love chibis, but The Wallflower over uses them. Let’s just hope they don’t overuse the jokes though, since I could imagine that happening. Anyways, I’m really excited for the series and waiting to find out more!

Bungaku Shoujo Trailer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O63qitxOc9M

The Bungaku Shoujo trailer got streamed~ I haven’t heard of Bungaku Shoujo until now, but it captured my attention somehow. The animation looks pretty, and the synopsis sounds a smidge peculiar, but still really interesting. The summary is as follows:

The protagonist of the story, Konoha Inoue, is a seemingly normal senior high 2nd year student. His high school life, other than a hinted incident 2 years ago, can be summed up as normal- if one can dismissed the secret fact that he used to be a female bestselling romance author. Due to that incident, however, he has now vowed never to write again.

This continued on until he was forced to join the literary club by the literary club president, the 3rd year female student Amano Tooko, a beautiful girl who has a taste [for] eating literary works. Now he has been tasked to write her snack every day after school. -MAL

The character designs look really nice, and it’s Production I.G., so it keeps looking better. It seems like Production I.G. is again doing the water-colored sort of effect going on. Anyhow seems unique, but still interesting, so I’ll still be checking it out. :D The girl seems quite scary though. O.o A monster…>_>

Liar Game Movie

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CER6yrYFH3k

As mentioned in my Blossom Blabber post, I’ve become a fan of the Liar Game drama, even though I haven’t finished the first season. x_x” Anyways, the second season came out on the 10th, so just a few days ago why does everything have to be on Tuesdays?! And it’s been announced that the movie will come out as well (awhile back)!~ The movie which should finally conclude the drama is planned to be set after the end of the second season (and the teaser says March 6, 2010). The summary of Liar Game is:

Kanzaki Nao, an honest college student, who receives a hundred million yen one day, along with a card saying she has been chosen to take part in the “Liar Game”. The aim of the game is to trick the other players out of their hundred million yen. At the end, the winner gets the hundred million and the loser is a hundred million yen in debt. The next day, she receives notification that her opponent is her former teacher, Fujisawa Kazuo. She goes to him, seeking help, but ends up getting tricked into handing her money over. Desperate, she approaches the police for help, but they are unable to do anything. However, she is told of a mastermind swindler, Akiyama Shinichi, who is to be released from jail the next day. Desperate, she goes to him for help. -MAL

*Hops for joy!* Yay~ I’m so glad that they’re having a movie to finish off the series. Even though barely anything is shown in the teaser, it looks good~ *A* It’s so far away from now, but I’m still pretty excited. Then again, I think I should first get through the 2 seasons. >_>

Kobato’s First DVD

I honestly think I should just quote Anime News Network. There’s going to be a limited DVD edition where there are…a ton of stuff. It includes the first two episodes (as do both regular and limited), the mini Flash animation, CLAMP-illustrated box, name tag in Kobato’s signature dove icon, DVD jacket, special page, liner notes, and a mail-in offer form. The regular DVD edition just has the episodes, DVD jacket, liner notes, and mail-in offer form. However, it may be subject to change in the future. Summary of Kobato is:

Kobato is sweet and perky girl, but also extremely naive about the world around her. She has a “mission”, which is to fill a mysterious bottle of hers with the suffering from people’s hearts so her wish to go a certain place that she desires to go can be granted. However, she must not fall in love with a particular boy she works with and whose heart she must heal. -MAL

So to start off, WOW. That’s…a lot of stuff. They pack those DVDs well. If only the U.S. could pack all this stuff like that! I’m anticipating the flash animation though. It seems pretty cute. ^^ I mean, chibi Kobato is already cute enough, so the mini animation could be even more…chibi-fied? xD I wish I could get the DVDs, but I can’t wait to see some of the stuff anyways.

TokiKake Teaser

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwJe9Yp2eLA

The teaser for the live-action TokiKake, aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, has been posted up. It’s planned on being released on March of 2009. However, it seems like the movie is about the original girl’s daughter (thanks Kiseki for pointing that out, since I didn’t notice it), even though the title is still the same. O.o

*O* Omg! TokiKake has been on my plan to watch for months already, so I’m glad there’s news on it. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to watch it, especially since I’ve been meaning to. With a movie coming out, I think there’s  a higher possibility of me finally watching it. It looks so good right now! I loved the clock effect as well. The only complaint I’d have is the guy. He has a funny look to him. Despite of this, I’m still really excited to see how the TokiKake movie turns out. The teaser already makes it look so good! >w<