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The official YouTube channel for singer Shiyui has started streaming a music video for her latest song "Overlap," which is now featured as the ending song for Blue Exorcist -The Blue Night Saga- . The song digitally released on January 5, 2025, the premiere day of the latest arc of the Blue Exorcist TV anime series. The theme of "Overlap" is to gently encourage people to start moving forward while facing and struggling with difficulties and their own weaknesses. The music is provided by Yukino Ito , whose original music has been used in the smartphone game application Project Sekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku , which has been attracting attention especially among young people. Newly drawn illustrations featured in the music video were provided by illustrator Lowrise . Shiyui "Overlap" Music Video Blue Exorcist -The Blue Night Saga- Creditless Ending Video Shiyui made her major label debut on Sony Music Labels' in-house label,...

The modern landscape of Japanese cinema features no shortage of genre fare taking their inspiration and/or origins from the world of anime. Most of those adaptations, though, arrived several years after their series premiere or original broadcast, which makes the new effort from director Yusuke Ishida quite curious, with his latest venture being a live-action version of “Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead” now screening on Netflix the same year as a series adaptation appears on Crunchyroll.

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Surviving a zombie apocalypse beats being a wage slave any day. After spending years slaving away for a soul-crushing company, Akira's (Eij Akaso) life has lost its luster. He lives in a trash-filled apartment, his pay is abysmal, and he can't even muster up the nerve to confess his love to a beautiful co-worker. But when a zombie apocalypse ravages his town,...

Two years after co-starring in Netflix‘s hit “Red Notice” with Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot is back in the Top 10 charts for the week of August 7 with her action-thriller “Heart of Stone.” Read on for this week’s analysis.

Gadot’s undeniable star power was on full display as “Heart of Stone” only premiered on the streamer this past Friday, and it was able to easily top the English-language list with 33.1 million views worldwide. It was the #1 watched film in most of the Americas (except Canada), Africa, Asia and Europe, and a great start for what should be another Netflix hit. “Red Notice” is famously Netflix’s most-watched movie ever, with 230.9 million global views total, but “Heart of Stone” will give Gadot a good opportunity to show that she doesn’t need the boys to get viewers watching.

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Despite the success of the first film, a sequel for Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead has not been confirmed by Netflix yet. The cast for a potential sequel would likely include the three main characters, as well as other survivors from the first film. With a sprawling manga series to draw from, there is plenty of content left for a potential Zom 100 sequel to explore, and it could continue the story of Akira and his friends in the post-apocalyptic world.

Netflix's adaptation of Haro Aso's manga series Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead turned out to be a surprise hit for the streaming giant, so is there any Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead 2 news coming down the pipeline? While Aso's sprawling series has been canonized in 14 tankōbon volumes, the Netflix movie tells a more succinct story in its roughly 2-hour runtime. With a...

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Warning: This article contains Spoilers for the Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead live-action movie and the manga.

Netflix's Zom 100 movie covers the first 11 chapters of the manga and features several key differences in the story, including changes to the opening sequence and Akira's backstory. The live-action adaptation changes Zom 100's chronology. For example, it introduces Kencho earlier in the story, before the zombie outbreak. Akira's bucket list has fewer items in the movie compared to the manga, and the items themselves differ between the two versions.

There are several differences between Netflix’s Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead live-action movie and the Zom 100 manga, which recently received an anime adaptation as well. Less than a month after the Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead anime premiered, the 2018 manga by Haro Aso and Kotaro Takata now has a live-action adaptation.

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Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Netflix's live-action Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead movie.

Netflix's live-action Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead movie condenses the manga's first 11 chapters into a 120-minute story, giving Akira, Shizuka, and Kencho a self-contained ending. The post-credits scene in Zom 100 plays with the aftermath for Gonzo Kosugi, Akira's former boss, who is left alone to clean up the mess and live with the consequences of his actions. The Zom 100 movie hints at a potential sequel, as it only covers a portion of the manga's story and leaves room for Akira, Shizuka, and Kencho's journey to continue.

Netflix’s Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead movie brought the popular manga into live-action, covering a certain portion of the story and giving Akira, Shizuka, and Kencho a relatively self-contained ending. Based on Zom 100: Zombie ni Naru made ni Shitai 100 no Koto...

Thanks to Japan’s Yurei, a rich culture of art concerning the supernatural, specifically horror elements, the anime and manga scene has been chock-full of good horror content since the very beginning of the genre. The artistic freedom that manga allows the creators to work with makes its presence felt in a unique way through sci-fi and horror works. From that aspect, the zombie horror subgenre, which was once more popular in the Western landscape, is gradually gaining its foothold in manga as well. If the recently released live-action adaptation of Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is any indication, mangakas have already created unique narrative structures to interpret the zombie subgenre in various ways.

Zom 100 delves into the delineation of human existence in contemporary Japan, questioning the scope life provides even in the midst of the zombie apocalypse by taking the characters through a journey in a changed world.